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Machine Learning Is Your Secret Weapon For Customer Acquisition

YoungUpstarts

by Chad Ruff, Chief Technology Officer at Swiftpage. While machine learning does fall under the larger category of artificial intelligence (AI), it’s a bit more specific and can be extremely effective technology to pair with your customer and prospect database. True AI can think for itself like Lieutenant Commander Data from Star Trek.

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Best Job Boards for Recruiting Startup Engineers

David Teten

In a HBS Angels panel I spoke at last week, Chris Fralic of First Round Capital quoted Chad Dickerson of Etsy on this topic. Speaking at a First Round-organized event, Chad said Etsy requires 100% of their engineers to be active in the technical community: give talks, blog, etc.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. Chad and Steve. We know Steve and Chad. So it was from ’91 to ’94 that I programmed. It was all technical. And my specialty was computer networks. But a lot of people – we see Sergei and Larry.

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Lessons Learned: What does a startup CTO actually do?

Startup Lessons Learned

Massive proprietary databases? October 2, 2008 8:58 AM Chad said. Platform selection and technical design - if your business strategy is to create a low-burn, highly iterative lean startup, youd better be using foundational tools that make that easy rather than hard. I dont think so. Great post, very educational. Great piece!

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How to Balance AI Magic with Human Expertise

Duct Tape Marketing

So you ask Chad GBT to do some sort of complex college math, they won't do it. And it tells me, Hey, go pick Microsoft and Google, and I'm like, Hey, that doesn't pick stocks, right? AI can't do that. It can just not this. (05:41): 05:41): Another example would be complex math problems.

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How to Structure Your Optimization and Experimentation Teams

ConversionXL

Chad Sanderson, the Experience Optimization Manager for Subway, creates an analogy for how the centralized model is set up: Chad Sanderson, Subway. As Chad Sanderson explains below, if your company is small, you may want to choose the model that works best within your budget. Chad Sanderson, Subway.

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

blog.expensify.com

The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) While I no longer do it as a profession, I was a database developer a number of years ago who sejob it was to tune databases and clean up developer code.

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