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. We’re going to start aggressively spend money on marketing our product. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0

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SVPG

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Article: Behind Every Great Product. I titled the paper, “Behind Every Great Product” and it was inspired by the classic Good Product Manager / Bad Product Manager by Ben Horowitz. The paper proved popular and helped many teams to get a better understanding of just what product was all about.

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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. The resulting product adapt-N has become the initial offering of Agronomic Technology.

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Technical Review Technology Software Review IP 65

Austin Startup

APRIL 25, 2017

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. Sometimes this means sacrificing short-term engagement to introduce products, like Stories, that might change the way people use Snapchat.

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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.]. Let's move on to doing productive things. You can see a specific shift in strategy starting May 2014 for Shutterstock, while we have continued to plod along at the same pace. I'll wait here. Probably not.

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