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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

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When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. With a slight diversion in the late 1990’s when everyone (including me) lost their mind for a few years, I’ve held to this algorithm for all my investing. And that was it.

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3 Ways Technology Is Changing Small Business Lending

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In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Today’s alternative lenders use sophisticated data-driven algorithms to assess borrowers’ creditworthiness and provide instant credit decisions. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. And so you really have a log of software algorithmic stuff that is very, very difficult.”. So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As The hardware trickery doesn’t scale very well.

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Uber’s New BHAG: UberPool

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In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” “Can you take me Higher? To a place where blind men see . Can you take me Higher? .

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The Future of Advertising will be Integrated

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They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category.

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10 Search Engines That Don’t Start With A G, B, Or Y

YoungUpstarts

Acting as both search engine and web portal, the 1994 research project that became Lycos was one of the world’s first internet ventures to turn a profit. Unceremoniously unseated by Google, the new Dogpile is staging a comeback with a clean interface, respectable index and cross-linking.

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Stitch Fix: Reinventing Retail Through Personalization

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Katrina has also proven herself in the recruiting field, having recruited Eric Colson from Netflix to run analytics and algorithms, Mike Smith from WalMart.com to run operations, and Jeff Barrett from Opower to build engineering. Likewise, she had recruited both Julie Bornstein from Sephora and Sukhinder Singh from Google as advisers.