Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 23, 2014
When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. With a slight diversion in the late 1990’s when everyone (including me) lost their mind for a few years, I’ve held to this algorithm for all my investing. And that was it.
YoungUpstarts
APRIL 3, 2015
In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. Today’s alternative lenders use sophisticated data-driven algorithms to assess borrowers’ creditworthiness and provide instant credit decisions. by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital.
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Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. And so you really have a log of software algorithmic stuff that is very, very difficult.”. So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As The hardware trickery doesn’t scale very well.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 30, 2011
They first started in 1994 and are therefore almost as old as the Web itself. I know that any time ads are mentioned it makes the blood boil on any self respecting technologist the same way it did when HotWire ran their first ad in 1994 and the way it made Google’s blood boil when Overture launched the sponsored search category.
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. Likewise, she had recruited both Julie Bornstein from Sephora and Sukhinder Singh from Google as advisers.
Duct Tape Marketing
APRIL 9, 2015
Google’s Ngram viewer (a tool that charts the usage of words in printed sources from 1800–2008) shows the precipitous rise of the words “content creation” around 1993-1994. Content creation sounds like storytelling between two search engine algorithms. This was also the time web browsers like Yahoo! And Netscape launched. Coincidence?
BeyondVC
MARCH 24, 2006
In 1994, the smartest guys in the financial trading and academic world got together to start Long Term Capital. It used proprietary computer driven models (think sexy algorithms) to find miniscule misprincings in markets and would use leverage and derivatives to exploit those mispricings. And the hedge fund performed spectacularly.
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