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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

I still run the research group in Cambridge with 11 post-docs and grad students, where we work on machine learning, algorithms for drug design and molecular design. Alpha Lee : Right, so I then started a research group in Cambridge. Alpha Lee : Right. Eric Ries : Wow. Eric Ries : Yeah. Alpha Lee : There might even be a cure. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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The Subscription Economy May Be Revolutionary—But It’s Not Without Risks

Up and Running

When I started in the financial services industry in 2003, getting to meetings when I was on the road was pretty straightforward—I took a cab. And the best software uses artificial intelligence algorithms to identify potential fraud. Just like executives had for more than seventy-five years.

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How do I get my first few customers?

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

But this was 2003 when AdWords was new. You can’t input your industry, product, pricing, and positioning into an algorithm and churn out the answer to who you should sell to, what you should say, and how you’re going to find them. The fallacy here is that you can copy what I did and get a customer. I bought ads for $0.05/click

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Data is the Next Major Layer of the Cloud & A Major Victory for Startups

Both Sides of the Table

Google bought Gil’s company in 2003 (pre IPO) for $100+ million and this business now represents about 30% of all of Googles revenue. They have built algorithms that automatically crawl the web for the world’s best structured data and use heuristic techniques to ensure the quality of the data. And so too will be Factual.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

Both Sides of the Table

Around 2003, Quigo was doing tens of millions of dollars in revenue with two main products: a ready-to-use, search engine marketing solution for advertisers called FeedPoint and a contextual advertising platform for publishers called AdSonar. Quigo Lands Overture as Client, Rejects Their Acquisition Offer.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 1)

Software By Rob

It has an algorithm that analyzes your visitor stream in real-time and provides you with a simple list of precisely which keywords you should be targeting to maximize your organic search growth. And the algorithm that made suggestions was operating at around 10-20% effectiveness. Imagine the luck!

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

YoungUpstarts

With a proprietary algorithm that sorts the results of several platforms into one cohesive list, Search is a powerful engine that separates sponsored links from the returned relevant results and allows customization of metasearch options. Though they retained the name and url, AltaVista search was acquired by Yahoo! WebCrawler.

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