David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80). . 9% (1 / 12).

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The Equity Kicker

MAY 6, 2014

We’re really happy to welcome Stylect to our portfolio. Stylect is a shoe shopping app for iOS which employs a Tinder-esque UI on top of it’s recommendation engine to help women find and purchase the perfect pair of shoes. This is the sense in which swiping is the new liking.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2024

Amidst the ever-changing Google algorithm, we've successfully helped numerous companies achieve high-ranking positions on search engines. 7- Starting as a founder Photo Credit: Daniel Espada In 2023 , I launched Geardventure as a full-time engineer and first-time founder. Thanks to Daniyal Sanaullah, SocialSharings ! #7-

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 11, 2014

We graduate more engineers in our greater region than anywhere else in the US. We have top 25 engineering schools than anywhere else, too. We have a large number of highly talented engineers and entrepreneurs now developing companies in our local market. Buying local teams with talented engineering groups. Maker Studios.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

So they update their algorithms religiously to try to do that. Well, as Google’s algorithms have advanced, the two end up being quite the same. So, Google (and other search engines) are highly unlikely to penalize for A/B testing. CRO and SEO should work together perfectly. There shouldn’t be a conflict. Image Source.

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

For many startups, this was the secret to massive success : David Quail is a super talented software engineer, with one exit already under his belt. To quote one of our investors, Len Brody, on his portfolio: “I call them the workaround culture… [they] just work around anything – and you have to.”. Use these off the shelf solutions.

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Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines.

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Why doesnt your test include more substantial algorithmic work, or building an HTML response with a server-side template?" March 28, 2013.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nowadays nearly every online shop utilizes some sort of product recommendation engine, which is no wonder, as these systems, if set up and configured properly can significantly boost revenues, CTRs, conversions, and other important metrics. What is a recommendation engine, exactly? How Recommendation Engines Benefit Sites.

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Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

As more investors have more touch points with a “Softbank round” in their portfolio, a picture emerges — rounds here often take a long time to close. And will society demand to have more of the algorithmic black box that feeds it information exposed in public? The fear of them investing in a competitor is real.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Now that I’ve mapped out key first steps that need to be taken and important cultural nuances to be aware of when expanding your business into Asia , many CEOs ask me if they can actually locate their engineering and product teams here and expect the same level of quality they get in the Valley. My simple answer is: absolutely.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. You have a company called Oblong (in your portfolio) which is a Minority Report type company. That is a personality type. On the Startup Visa Program.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Seeing that Web developers take a lot of pride in their online portfolios and keep their LinkedIn profile up to date this just appears incredibly dated. QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. Let's move on, shall we? Generic CS questions. You know, math problems.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 18, 2012

Check out the 28 Israeli startups coming to London next week to showcase at the Innovate Israel 2012 portfolio. The First Taste Engine. Jinni is a Taste Engine. With a Taste Engine, you don’t search by what you’re looking for, you search by what you like. Films inspire us. Our project.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

You can turn on a blackbox quality filter , which hides replies from your notifications stream that the algorithm deems low quality. Highlighted Homebrew Portfolio Jobs. They’re hiring remote roles in engineering and product design. This removes many of the “ha ha cuck” replies. Be Careful About QTs : Ah, the QuoteTweet.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore. The engine at the core of that growth was a highly advantaged customization offering that took years and years for Dell’s competitors to figure out.

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The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2020

Reduce your dependence on only one part of the business and diversify your business portfolio. The strategies have changed and with Google’s new BERT algorithm, the search engine favors content that is more relevant and informative for the target audience. The Strategic Use of Keywords and Effective Keyword Planning.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 16, 2013

Exploit Technologies has been working with A*STAR Research Institutes and partner organizations to develop portfolios of enabling technologies to help strengthen the sector’s competitiveness. ARISE’s Entity search engine aims to take search beyond mere web pages. . “With new business models comes the need for new technologies.

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Hunter Walker

MAY 11, 2021

The company’s business matters too — the agriculture, health care, financial empowerment startups in Homebrew’s portfolio are all telling me about an increase in candidates who mention the mission as a reason they’re attracted. I’ve seen many first time founders overthink (or overestimate) the financial impact.

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K9 Ventures

SEPTEMBER 8, 2018

Yesterday, K9 Ventures portfolio company, Forethought AI , was declared the winner of the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018 Startup Battlefield competition. And his thesis was on a new algorithm for clustering of text documents that is being used at Forethought now. Sami is an engineer’s engineer.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker. Creative Automation.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 16, 2021

Virtual Reality for Seniors | MyndVR Austin-based ZPEG developed an upgraded compression algorithm for streaming videos based on an advanced human visual model that reduces streaming costs for 4K streams by 30%. ZPEG Engine - ZPEG.com San Antonio’s Grain4Grain has turned brewer’s spent grains into nutritious and protein-rich flour.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 1, 2011

Their algorithms help students find the cheapest places to buy all their books collectively, rather than one at a time, and can save students a lot of time and up to 75-percent on new, used, rental and even digital textbooks. .&#

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

The event will culminate in Demo Day, which is tomorrow, and will see Seedcamp showcase its portfolio startups to a wide variety of professional investors and press. Promising men to let them ‘shop like men’, BRANDiD employs its Masculine Algorithmic Learning Engine (M.A.L.E.) Home on Demand ( HomeOnDemand.co.uk ).

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

The solution was to leverage real-time signals like bad weather, flight delays at 5,145 airports, and other such data, combine that with ML powered algorithms to automate ads and messaging in the proximity of local airports. Engineering, economics, and neuroscience are also helpful. All sans human-control. ML + Automation = Profit.

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BeyondVC

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

This means we invest in product-driven engineering teams where all of the development is done in house and where rapid iteration is a key to success. While this sounds simple, there is a ton of work that goes into helping our portfolio companies get to a successful Series A. The other big theme is one of big data.

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Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

The path of least resistance would have been to build a DMCA Takedown Engine but instead the talented team at YouTube solved an enormous challenge in a much more productive manner. Participants (registered YouTube users) would start with a slug of virtual currency with which to start their video portfolio and you’d go from there.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. Authenticity to NextView. Now we need to figure out what to do with it all.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 7, 2015

B2B on-demand is the perfect combination between two of our existing portfolio strengths: The fact that half of our investments are business-focused startups, and our expertise with consumer on-demand services like Paintzen , TaskRabbit , and Scratch. Authenticity to NextView. Now we need to figure out what to do with it all.

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Transformify

AUGUST 18, 2021

You need to be careful in choosing the website where you’ll build your portfolio because you might end up wasting time, effort, and money without getting any clients. Search Engine Optimization or SEO, SEM. Behance is Adobe’s portfolio website so it’s easy to miss this opportunity. Teaching and Tutoring.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Here are a bunch of examples of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures companies getting better at scale: Canary 's explosive growth has enabled it to process more video every second than Youtube, learning patterns in order to make its alert algorithms better. The more people who buy and use it, the smarter it gets.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

Our unique and patented algorithms are a breakthrough in the present state of the art. Sagarmatha’s core technology is a sophisticated, proprietary data mining engine. Our solution: SlideIT is a revolution in virtual keyboards that enables the user to enter text by sliding along the letters using fingers or a stylus.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 16, 2012

This way, there’s less chance that the site’s search rank will decline with the next Google algorithm update. An older site will usually have a more well-known brand, a better backlink profile, more results in the search engines, and potentially a better search rank for key niche terms.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. What happens when Google’s algorithm cuts organic visibility for your blog in half? Tom Tunguz offers a framework that uses a scale from 1 to 10 to assess demand generation portfolios: 1. generates the demand) for the target audience. Expand methodically.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

I am applying my nearly 20 years worth of experience working with a portfolio of clients who are all women led and fall within the fashion, wellness and non-profit categories. However, after 18 months of doing that it all came crashing down one day when Google changed their algorithm. I was working in digital marketing.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column. Related implications of what you want to do in-house vs. out source to an Agency.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 15, 2020

They’re probably telling themselves that this is by design—that it’s part of a “portfolio management” strategy in which you accept lower performance from a (large) number of campaigns but balance that with higher returns from other areas. But they’re not getting enough data from smaller campaigns to optimize them in a meaningful way.

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