Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 27, 2019

It has proven to be a huge customer growth engine, and now has over 100 million members globally. Their pricing algorithm crawls the Web daily, and adjusts prices to always match the lowest price found anywhere, offline or online. Practice continuous bar-raising for your talent pool.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 19, 2015

I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. Patents can apply to innovative user interfaces, processes or a new technology algorithm. Business efforts should start only after the product is right.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Live data also requires metrics and infrastructure that can interpret and evaluate the data, and smart businesses must develop these in the algorithms they use in their data-intelligence engines. Uber’s algorithms match car and driver, minimizing wait times and making mapping calculations in ways that no human dispatcher could match.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Assign real value to intellectual property. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Assign real value to intellectual property. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. Assign real value to intellectual property. The value of patents and trademarks is not certifiable, especially if you are only at the provisional stage.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 15, 2023

People tell me there may be over 8,000 dating sites with scientific matchmaking algorithms worldwide, but I couldn’t find one that focused on scientifically matching companies and people for business-to-business (B2B) relationships. In addition, your company engines have to synchronize, which requires changes beyond the honeymoon period.

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