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Sponsored Poolfunding: A New Way To Think About Maximizing Advertising Dollars

YoungUpstarts

Google continues to evolve and refine its search algorithms over time, leading more businesses to turn to paid advertising models to get the exposure they seek in the multi-channel, multi-device world. It works by compiling a list of the best vendors in a specific vertical that share some commonality – location, for example.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Both hardware (such as sensors that interact with the environment to collect data) and software (the algorithms that are able to intelligently interact with humans or other machines) have become more sophisticated. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

In founding TripAdvisor, Kaufer wanted to take his hard core engineering skills and apply them to vertical search in travel. Fortunately, on the side, the company had built up TripAdvisor.com as a demo site to show the prospective clients what a vertical search engine could do. Big Data meets travel…in 2000.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Both hardware (such as sensors that interact with the environment to collect data) and software (the algorithms that are able to intelligently interact with humans or other machines) have become more sophisticated. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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

blog.expensify.com

It’s like arguing against vertical software. Fun does not include ERP or accounting or any other algorithmically non interesting character shuffling or dynamically generated SQL queries, so that you can collect micropayments from already broke teens. Basically, any Algorithm-able person cannot be a bad programmer.

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