SoCal CTO

MARCH 11, 2013

Results of Algorithms. Often you can't tell if something like a search engine or matching algorithm is really going to have better results until you use it. A Beginner's Guide to Investors How to Speak the Language of Venture Capital What The Heck Does “Traction” Really Mean To A VC?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Just about anything can be patented : circuits, hardware, software, applied algorithms, formulas, designs, user interfaces, applications, systems. Scientific principles or pure mathematical algorithms cannot be patented. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital. Tags: Technology Venture Capital.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. Select Finalists for Venture Capital Access Program. Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York and the.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Following is a guest post from ff Venture Capital winter intern Max Segan , a Colgate senior majoring in computer science, who is starting at Facebook this summer as a software engineer. 6) Use algorithms questions. For more information on Floyd’s algorithm see Wikipedia ; it takes O(1) extra memory and O(N) time.

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

HBS Angels of NY and the NAIC have named the finalist women and minority entrepreneurs of the Venture Capital Access Program; check out the press release below. Select Finalists for Venture Capital Access Program. Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York and the.

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David Teten

MARCH 29, 2015

Even if you’re not a developer, algorithmic thinking will help you to be more effective, so I think you can still use this list to guide your thinking. Don’t code anything until you’re reasonably certain your algorithm works. How To Add Powerful (and Legal) Images To Your Presentations. 1) Establish Proof of Correctness.

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

So-called after the California Gold Rush where the purveyors of picks and shovels made a killing (whereas the outcome for prospectors was mixed), the picks and shovels of machine intelligence are hardware, data feeds, and (arguably) the algorithms themselves. Of course there are exceptions?—?last I wonder how they intend to commercialise it?

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 9, 2007

Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 13, 2007

Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Now that September is here, venture capital activity will pick up as usual. Here are a few of the companies who raised venture capital in August that I found really interesting. million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Panorama Capital and Comcast Interactive Capital. The company raised $2.1 Or maybe both.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 1, 2007

Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 12, 2007

Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 20, 2007

Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 5, 2007

Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising. The ff Venture Capital portfolio is evidence of how much we believe this, e.g., our companies Alerts.com , Gobbler.com , Identified.com , Patents.com , Phone.com , and Plated.com. I previously published this in Forbes.

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

And thanks to Facebook’s ranking algorithm, a lot of likes doesn’t necessarily mean that your content will appear in people’s streams. Capital raised is the favorite yardstick in the startup world. Some entrepreneurs are obsessed with venture capital. Facebook Likes. Another metric chased by brands around the world.

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

I’ve also shared my insights with Techcrunch, in “ 5 creator economy VCs see startup opportunities in monetization, discovery and much more “ As venture capital investors, one question we think about a lot at Remagine Ventures is “where are the opportunities for startups in the Creator Economy?”

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Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

I think customer feedback comes in a very unstructured manner, hence it is difficult to apply an algorithm on it. This is where it becomes an art as it requires skill (entrepreneurial?) to make sense of the unstructured feedback received from customers. Reply Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. This is why I do speak regularly at various conferences.

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A Crowded Space

MARCH 12, 2019

Some say you could enforce more transparency in the algorithm. There is a good reason Google keeps the details of their search algorithm a very closely guarded secret. I’ve been in the venture capital business for about 8 years now and have only seen an increasing number of startups going after every imaginable industry.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

Matching Algorithm ► October (15) eLearn 2009 Presentation – Twitter Along Los Angeles Technology Connector – Kurt Daradics Online Business Networking Los Angeles Social Media to Build Reputation and Reach Prospec. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Most startups ideas are not built in an afternoon, typically they are the sum of seemingly disparate and discrete pieces of information, and a pattern recognition algorithm continuously running in a founders head. Filed under: Venture Capital. Tags: Venture Capital. The Slide Deck As A Brainstorming Tool.

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Haystack

OCTOBER 16, 2019

So, instead, after sleeping on it, I think the tweet was more of an inadvertent Rorschach test: A Rorschach test is a psychological test in which subjects’ perceptions of inkblots are recorded and then analyzed using psychological interpretation, complex algorithms, or both.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 12, 2016

The Quantopian site is a community platform which invites prospective hedge fund managers to make use of its infrastructure and data to develop algorithms that are used in choosing and managing investments. Quantopian chooses a promising investment strategy every month and $10,000 of its own capital is put for backing it.

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BeyondVC

JULY 31, 2008

Venture Capital firms continue to invest in companies that are providing answers to key disruptive market forces and are exiting those investments via M&A. What I love about these kinds of opportunities is that algorithms scale, have high gross margins, and are highly defensible. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 10, 2009

An example of a reversible decision could be adding a product feature, a new algorithm in the code, targeting a specific set of customers, etc. Decision Making Heuristics for the Startup CEO The heuristic I gave my friend was to think of decisions of having two states: those that are reversible and those that are irreversible.

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Haystack

FEBRUARY 9, 2019

Algorithms are powering most of that flow, and these algorithms are often designed to maximize engagement, reduce costs, and the like. The data inputs and decisions of these algorithmic systems, however, have traditionally been hidden from the consumer’s view. This is what they call the “Black Box.” Enter, Fiddler Labs.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Katrina has also proven herself in the recruiting field, having recruited Eric Colson from Netflix to run analytics and algorithms, Mike Smith from WalMart.com to run operations, and Jeff Barrett from Opower to build engineering. ecommerce Internet retailing Uncategorized Venture Capital Web/Tech Ecommerce Retailing Stitch Fix'

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Taking an expert’s recommend list or a list around a theme is so much more useful than some algorithmic approach to where my friends eat. Algorithms don’t understand my mood, my price range, or desire to eat in Brooklyn as well as a well-titled curated list does. I can’t wait until it comes out on Mobile.

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

Magazine calls it a “hybrid venture capital fund and business school”. Watsi - the first non-profit to receive venture backing from Y Combinator. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Trade secrets in the US are governed by state law , which can vary, but in general, can include anything from clever ways of solving technical or business problems to formulas, algorithms, internal pricing or financial data, or just about any other valuable business information, provided that it’s treated as confidential by the company.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Pattern Recognition One of the great things about being an entrepreneur is that you are constantly running a pattern recognition algorithm against a continual collection of customer and market data. While this sounds inexplicable to an outside observer, sometimes it makes sense. Other times it’s just plain dumb.

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 6, 2018

In 2017, new languages were created from companies like Microsoft and IBM to take classical algorithms and help repurpose for quantum, and this will accelerate in 2018 as the Fortune 500s start building out skunkworks teams to explore use cases. Quantum dabbling: We will hear about more and more enterprises explore the use of quantum.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 12, 2014

Correlation Ventures just released a study that shows the distribution of outcomes across over 21,000 financings and spanning the years 20014-2013. Venture Economics venture capital returns venture economics venture math venture returns'

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 23, 2011

He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. But it was an attractive time to enter because the successful internet companies were scaling and in need of capital. 49:35-51:30).

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