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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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Lessons Learned: Please teach kids programming, Mr. President

Startup Lessons Learned

Whats striking about these stories, if you get past the PR hype, are two very important themes: These prodigies were self-taught, and had a fundamental fascination with technology from a very young age. But aggregated across many schools, there are thousands or tens of thousands of them.

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Why diversity matters (the meritocracy business)

Startup Lessons Learned

Engineers are offenders in this category too, but so is any gender-segregated activity, like an all-female PR or marketing team. Two others – that each team member give their input independently and that the results be objectively aggregated – are also key parts of building a meritocracy.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. So frequently embarrassing failures are masked by spinning PR or fudging numbers to give the illusion of success. This is the blog post I needed to read.