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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

I first met Steve when he was VP of Engineering at Centerline software, a software development tools startup, and I was a junior in college. He was a fellow Harvard computer science graduate and I was looking for a summer job in software development and found him through an alumni directory.

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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. >> Sometimes youll incubate a bit longer, sometimes shorter. Our idea is boring and not revolutionary.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

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. Media and e-commerce sites are prime customers of this.

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20 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

The final word, media, helped to define the vertical we were to operate in. Thanks to Alistair Dodds, Smoking Chili Media ! #11- 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. #11- 11- Inspired by the term software development kit. Photo Credit: Carl Potak. That name was and is, StartupDevKit.

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