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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

companies, more sensitivity around technology IP and security. This was the big consumer behavior story of 2018, behind the rapid rise of digitally-native vertical brands (like the breakout , Hims), and the rise of prosumer-level data applications (like breakout Airtable). In the meantime, we have what we have today.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

Google’s own research , done “in cooperation with our publishing partners,” showed that “even minor changes to the current sampling levels could degrade user experience and, as user access is restricted, unintentionally impact article ranking in Google Search.”. Start with 10 monthly clicks. You can verify the real Googlebot for your site.).

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Austin AI startups raised more than $50 Million in 2017

Austin Startup

Enterprise Platform or Vertical Business Focused. The enterprise focus has a tough time showing their own IP versus the vertical business solutions have limited total addressable market. NarrativeDX closed their Series A led by LiveOak Venture Partners in Austin and HealthX Ventures in May 2017. Substrate.ai

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

Security will shift from defensive to predictive AI-powered security (Norwest Venture Partners). Since AI and ML startups cut across verticals (analytics, fintech, health, adtech, security, etc), it’s easier to group them under the “machine intelligence” umbrella, coined by Shivon Zillis , a partner at Bloomberg Beta.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

We already have some competitors in the vertical and while there is no point in trying to hide the actual idea, there are differences in the way we implement stuff that can get us an advantage over the competition. >> One thing Id add: IP- and idea-defense isnt always the strategy behind the stealth tactic.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

” I’m quite sure with this article you alienated not only few potential customers or partners but also some existing ones. there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. It’s like arguing against vertical software. What did we do?

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

she will look at all her observations of other supermarkets on Earth, on other planets, and do her best to give your the best normalized, indexed, algorithm'ed number. And I'm totally ignoring that demo/psycho data is deeply inferred and algorithmized. Switch your IP to the first opportunity from #1.

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