VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Don’t take my word for it – in the roundup of venture capital predictions for 2017 , I found it to be the top recurring theme. Venture Capital investments in AI, Europe 2016 (Source: Dealroom ). Source text is analyzed against category taxonomies generated via semi-supervised machine learning.

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Artificial Inteligence Technical Review Startup 122

steveblank.com

JULY 8, 2011

Poplytics – online surveys and analytics AskYourTargetMarket – market research surveys SurveyMonkey - granddaddy of on-line surveys Amazon Mechanical Turk – you can set up a question and get answers PickFu – A/B testing $5 for 50 opinions Collaboration Dropbox – store, sync, and, share files online.

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Software Review Startup Silicon Valley Analytics 110

Ben's Blog

MARCH 24, 2011

Let’s look at public market comparables and venture capital flows to see if we can find a match. Companies that produce little value today might still receive high valuations due to high growth expectations. Venture capital flows. If too much venture capital hits the streets, valuations will bubble up.

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VC Cafe

MAY 12, 2016

Ironsource – Software Discovery, Distribution and Delivery Platform (Raised $123M). Jfrog – Binary Repository Solution and Software Distribution Social Platform (Raised $62M). Ctera – Private cloud for corporates (Raised $45M). Yotpo – Clever product reviews in eCommerce websites (Raised $29M).

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VC Cafe

DECEMBER 1, 2015

It’s striking that algorithm developments for machine intelligence have been overwhelmingly open source. The Curious AI Company , a General AI company whose first venture is waste sorting (the very definition of unsexy but lucrative), reportedly aims to sell its AI software as a toolkit. Of course there are exceptions?—?last

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Software Review Startup 60

Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 24, 2012

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. They found that a large part of the accidents were due to random objects falling from trucks on the road. I will elaborate a bit on the first one – Big Data.

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Altgate

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The presentation was on outsourcing generally, not just software engineering and the audience was very early stage companies (some yet to be founded). The servers are in the cloud, his advertising sales is with Google, etc. it’s also a good example of hybrid sourcing…you can draft and get outsourced review.

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Software Review Offshore Startup Boston 65

blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

The right sort of person is so passionate about coding, they can’t be stopped from doing it. But every day spent in that kitchen is a day NOT spent in a real kitchen, learning how to cook real food, and write real code. I currently work in information security, and I help teach developers how to write better, more secure code.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

The group seeks out technologies that are complementary to the company’s core operations, including applications, software and infrastructure startups. Qualcomm Ventures is invested in a number of startups including Livescribe, Obopay , Arieso and Zeebo. View More » Business Essential Startup Funding Tips From 8.

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www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

But, when a techie is in the heady throws of the neat idea/fun coding honeymoon, that kind of stuff is not really on their minds. It’s all about the code at that point, and being lost in codespace is fun and rewarding in its own right. Cloud Computing (5). open source. Adventures In Venture Capitalism.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Marc Andreessen: So the computer industry started in 1950 and basically ran for 50 years with the same model, which was a model where all of the new computers, all the new technology, all the new software started out being sold for the highest prices to the biggest organizations.

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Software Review Startup Venture Capital Stock 22

www.women2.org

MARCH 8, 2012

I first spent time trying to build it myself leveraging open source tools, applying my skills from a single CS class, and trying to be an autodidactic coder. My delusions of coding grandeur quickly subsided and realized that I was not going to hack it. Prior to that, she worked in venture capital at OpenView Venture Partners.

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Cofounder Technical Review San Francisco Founder 47

www.seriesseed.com

MARCH 2, 2010

The advent of cloud computing, open source software, platforms with APIs, and numerous other changes have lowered the cost of launching a new enterprise. Additionally, I plan to “open source” the documents so that they can be continually improved by suggestions from the community.

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