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AI Startups Need Data, and the Government Needs Help

ReadWriteStart

government boasts more than 200,000 public datasets hosted through data.gov, divided among numerous lists and segmented into categories such as: Information on 173 million taxi rides in New York City. Weather data from the past 100 years. Mexican birth records. government procurement data. Real-Estate Listings. Security First.

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Search Intent: How to Analyze and Optimize Your Site

ConversionXL

Aggregators? Blue links of aggregator sites with “Best Restaurants” lists. displays aggregators when you’re an individual site, or vice versa). Google’s Knowledge Cards, Kohn offers , are a perfect example of aggregating intent—answering a query and providing valuable context. In SERPs, Google shows its hand. The lesson?

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Which Markets Are the Most And Least Served by Seed Investors?

View from Seed

Anecdotally we’ve heard the sentiment that there are still very few firms who can lead seed rounds in New York, while we’ve also seen a recent uptick of Boston seed rounds led by non-Boston firms. SF/Bay Area, New York, Boston, and LA. For this analysis, I focused on the four largest startup ecosystems in the U.S. –

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HBS Angels Healthcare Night

David Teten

We invite you to join HBS Angels of Greater New York for a set of presentations by 7 high-potential young healthcare companies on the evening of Wednesday, February 29, in midtown Manhattan. This evening is exclusively for members of the HBS Angels of Greater New York. To Join HBS Angels of New York: 1.

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Every time OpenAI cuts a check for training data, an unlaunched competitive startup dies. Without a ‘safe harbor,’ AI will be ruled by incumbents.

Hunter Walker

Companies like the New York Times are willing to litigate this issue (at least as a negotiation strategy). And some sort of transparency statistics on these issues in aggregate. These business deals are a substitute for unclear copyright and usage laws. It’s likely that our regulations need to update ‘fair use.’

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10 Predictions About the Future of Ecommerce

mashable.com

Amazons product suggestions are great because they have so much aggregate data. If they did, I could get an amazing aggregate view of whats relevant to me based on a more complete profile. is the largest independent online news site dedicated to covering digital culture, social media and technology. . - John Jackovin , Bawte.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce? He played for the New York Yankees between 1920 and 1934. In contrast to the heroism of Helen Keller, your startup’s story also needs to demonstrate its Kudzu-like invasiveness, how no incumbents are adapted, nor could any adapt fast enough.

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