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The Top 5 Episodes of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast in 2023

Duct Tape Marketing

Despite not going to university, Ash became a serial tech founder and the first marketing director of a unicorn startup – Just Eat). His newest book, I s the Algorithm Plotting Against Us?: Biggest Takeaway: While significant progress has been made in AI, we are still in the early stages of its development.

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What Happens When Startups Turn from Their Innovation Stage to Operational Excellence?

Both Sides of the Table

As an early-stage VC I love this phase. Sam also had a vision as early as 2012 about how MakeSpace would be a large employer of middle-income jobs: The company would hire employees rather than just have contractors and he would lead the effort to ensure they had opportunities for growth and benefits for their families.

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The Market Is Hot for Code Climate, NextView’s Newest Investment

Genuine VC

When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. Chad is the CEO of thoughtbot, a consulting firm that makes web + mobile apps for early-stage startups. It essentially gives developers another set of eyes on every commit.

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Events and Networking in Los Angeles

SoCal CTO

Why does this hurt, well I was just reading a few blog posts yesterday on finding startup co-founders: Where do you Find Cofounders? Startup Co-Founders: If You Cant Recruit Em, Should You Join Em? Finding Startup Co-Founders You would hope that networking events would be a good way to find suitable folks.

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Entreprenuer Network

SoCal CTO

The articles I cited there around finding co-founders suggests that Ben is on the money. ► February (2) CTO Founders / Cofounders Part-Time Startup CTO? Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh. Ben asks for help finding the people who would be good for entreprenuers to know.

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5 Outrageously Innovative Israeli Startups to Watch in 2020

ReadWriteStart

Our platform’s ‘EQ’ is higher than mine”, as Ori Manor, Co-founder and CEO, once stated. Relying on adaptive algorithms, Verbit is speech recognition technology that provides transcripts for both live and recorded conversations. As the name suggests, LawGeex is all about making legal practice easier.

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

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . Pitchbot.vc