VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Anodot (2014) – a real-time analytics and automated anomaly detection system that discovers outliers in vast amounts of data. Fraugster (2014) – Technically based in Berlin, the company uses AI to predict malicious attacks before they happen. Logz.io (2014) – Logz.io Raised $8M in series B in September 2016.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. So if your costs are $500,000 per month and you have $350,000 per month in revenue then your net burn (500-350) is equal to $150,000.

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ithacaVC

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For more than a decade Harold van Es, Cornell Professor and Chair of CALS Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, has lead a team of researchers and analytical software developers to create a modelling tool which would help address these issues. Today that same type of utility can be executed at a very small percentage of that cost.

Technical Review 65

Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. It also meant that there was great pressure to get the release out so they could start to gain the efficiencies of a single code base. In 1993, Word 6.0

Product 60

Product Technical Review Software Review Engineer 60

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

I won’t dive into cost structure in this blog post, but let’s think through how Snap could grow revenue 20x. It’s up from 40 minutes in July 2014. Even by July 2014, Facebook’s core application had effectively saturated the US market, with more than 80% of US adults on Facebook. What is a ladder-up strategy?

Valuation 48

Valuation Technical Review Forecast Social Network 48

Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Note to NSA reviewer of this blog post: I'm a harmless digital marketer, totally not worth your attention.]. You can see a specific shift in strategy starting May 2014 for Shutterstock, while we have continued to plod along at the same pace. For Getty, this should lead to a big review of the current marketing strategy.

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