View from Seed

MARCH 1, 2016

As an adult, I know the world operates on story first and logic second. Tiny Speck decided to sunset Glitch and began winding down its operations. I find it intriguing that species not only evolve against their environment, but their environment co-evolves simultaneously against them. A nice account of Stuart’s story is here.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 20, 2021

9-More precise algorithms to match couples. I am the CEO and co-founder of a dating app called So Syncd that is based on matching compatible personality types. Personality compatibility is key for building lasting flames from instant sparks and the dating apps of the future will use more precise algorithms to match couples.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

All this is done through patented signal optimization and beamforming algorithms that will extend the range of Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) to more than 100 meters. Co-founder, CEO Aashish Mehta offered more insight into the company. TFi is revolutionizing the way we access power. What is your competitive advantage?

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ming is the former chief of staff and strategy advisor to co-founder Jack Ma for over a decade, and outlines five key steps for automating decisions today as follows: Log and use consumer behavior and product transaction data. If your business is not powered by an algorithm, you don’t have a competitive business today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

He is the co-founder of Boast.ai, where he leveraged the Community-Led Growth model to bootstrap the company. He is also the co-founder of Traction, a community empowering over 100k innovators through connections, content, and capital. He is the co-founder of Boast.ai This is John Jansen.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

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

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David Teten

MARCH 29, 2015

Even if you’re not a developer, algorithmic thinking will help you to be more effective, so I think you can still use this list to guide your thinking. Don’t code anything until you’re reasonably certain your algorithm works. How To Add Powerful (and Legal) Images To Your Presentations. 1) Establish Proof of Correctness.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 3, 2020

My goal for 2020 as a founder is to celebrate the small moments more. In 2019, we focused on expanding our product line at BestSelf Co. As a founder, our community will be my biggest focus in the new year. As a founder, our community will be my biggest focus in the new year. Thanks to Cathryn Lavery, BestSelf Co. ! #7-Make

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 6, 2020

In January of this year, he arrived in the US with his co-founders as part of the winter 2020 YCombinator batch. As Alpha explained, it's "not in any way tied to PostEra's commercial operations. Alpha Lee : I'm Alpha Lee, a co-founder of PostEra. It's solely used to make and test compounds against COVID."

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Up and Running

JULY 11, 2014

That said, even renowned founders and investors like Paul Graham have made mistakes. Y Combinator - another company that Paul helped to co-found and that helps startups get funding, with particular emphasis given to those started by young, tech-savvy founders. Simply put, it’s not solving a real-life problem. Sold to Yahoo!

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Steve Blank

MARCH 9, 2016

The show follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Joining me in SiriusXM’s studio in New York were: Drew Silverstein , co-founder and CEO of the music technology venture Amper Music. Drew Silverstein.

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Hearpreneur

MARCH 15, 2019

Henrik and I co-founded Fisker Inc. With Remitr I saw that opportunity to solve a problem in international B2B payments that was crying for a technology-enabled solution and decided to plunge into it with my co-founding team. I co-founded Sarah Nicole Skincare with the mission for it to be a tool in reclaiming confidence.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Both I and my co-founder purchased apartments years ago and found it amazing that buyer agents advertise themselves as free while most commonly being paid 3% of the purchase price. Haven’t joined the first tier among hundreds of competitors, we still get influenced by algorithm adjustment from search engines many times.

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abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

The company, which the founder cleverly named “Stitch Fix,” had a remarkably unique offering compared to other women’s fashion experiences. I immediately reached out to the founder and CEO, Katrina Lake , who had previously worked for another Benchmark portfolio company in the fashion space, Polyvore.

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Reid Hoffman

JANUARY 12, 2023

A lot of it started with DeepMind and the neural networks it trained to play classic arcade games like Pong and Breakout, and then its development of even more powerful algorithms like AlphaZero, which it created to master far more complex games like Go and Chess. Of course, there’s still a lot of work to do to make that real.

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Hearpreneur

JANUARY 10, 2020

I run a web app that generates business names, but I didn’t have my algorithm ready in time to file my LLC. I had my own company operating under the name of Kamal and Shashi Sharma Ltd. I was brainstorming names with my co-founders CTO Jesse Forrest and CMO Matt Reilly. 6- A ton of manual searches, and a few tools.

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SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

I did a presentation this week at Coloft that looked at how Non-Technical Founders can go about getting their MVP built. There are a few cases where you somewhat need to see the system operating to have a sense of the value. We needed the matching algorithm. And the back-end is something that a non-technical founder can manage.

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Austin Startup

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia, Co-Founder of Rocheli Patisserie Nelly Garcia was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and immigrated to Austin, Texas, in 2002 at the age of 15. Maria’s dad started Donn’s Bar-B-Que 35 years ago and Maria now co-operates the business alongside her parents.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2011

“In the online advertising industry there is never a dull moment&# , told me Assaf Roth the founder of IgniteAd. In a nutshell, it is a marketplace which brings together buyers and sellers of display advertising and operates almost as a ‘hedge fund’ of available ad inventory and ad spend budget.

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VC Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2011

“In the online advertising industry there is never a dull moment&# , told me Assaf Roth the founder of IgnitAd. In a nutshell, it is a marketplace which brings together buyers and sellers of display advertising and operates almost as a ‘hedge fund’ of available ad inventory and ad spend budget. .

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 17, 2012

It’s hard to believe that the genius behind the co-creation of software giant Microsoft never finished college, but it’s clear he didn’t need his diploma to do big things. Today, Microsoft and its line of operating systems are the biggest and most widely used in the world. Sergey Brin. Henry Ford.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 29, 2009

The design failure meant that there was constant thrashing as the servers struggled to provision capacity according to the “elegant&# algorithm we’d designed. Lean vs. debt In the world of physical goods, the leaner a supply chain is, the less debt is required to operate it. Neither assumption proved remotely accurate.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

September 27, 2010 | View Comments This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. Advice: I wrote a gude to finding a technical co-founder.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 9, 2017

And so I think you’re starting to see — it’s not like Google is using a different algorithm for desktop, for mobile, for voice, they’re using the same algorithm so you’re starting to see the same kinds of interfaces that you might see happening in voice search also happening on mobile and desktop.

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viniciusvacanti.com

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

This is the third part of a series on becoming your own technical co-founder. In 2008, we couldn’t find a technical co-founder for Yipit. I’m writing about how I became our technical co-founder. Disclaimer: If you know a great technical co-founder that wants to work with you, join them.

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Up and Running

APRIL 28, 2015

Jesse Thomas and Lauren Fleshman are a married couple and the co-founders of Picky Bars, a business that makes and sells natural energy bars. Picky Bars was founded in 2010 based on the founders’ mutual interest in athletics and in creating the “perfect” energy bar for athletes like themselves.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 30, 2019

John Jantsch: Today’s episode is brought to you by Break Through The Noise , the new book by Tim Staples, Co-Founder and CEO of Shareability. I mean, I think a lot of people probably kind of operate in that same sort of vein. Back to Podcast. Transcript. I’m probably going to look elsewhere. Aaron Weiche: Yep.

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 3, 2012

Technical founders Tom Leighton and Danny Lewin built the original prototype at their lab at MIT starting in late 1996 before raising capital, so in a sense Akamai’s Minimum Viable Product (MVP) was a prototype with the basic architecture and traffic mapping in place that validated algorithms for the founders and investors alike.

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Startup Lessons Learned

NOVEMBER 29, 2008

For the past couple of years Ive used a question that I once was asked in an interview, in which you have the candidate produce an algorithm for drawing a circle on a pixel grid. As they optimize their solution, they eventually wind up deriving Bresenhams circle algorithm. what happens if we have a pipelined architecture?

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A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 19, 2010

Google's search algorithm was just better, therefore they won the eyeballs, therefore they were able to monetize. In the 90's, y'all, before that was built into all the operating systems!) Google's algorithm, combined with the hardware and software to implement a search of trillions of websites in 0.2 Our advantage was speed.

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VC Cafe

MARCH 17, 2023

Personally, I believe that game development is a creative endeavour that includes both technical skill and a level of creativity and originality that would may be one day be possible for an algorithm. It would be hard to algorithmically generate the gameplay, the storyline, the cohesiveness of it all as one cool story/experience.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Orcam was created by the founders of Mobileye (NYSE: MBLY and one of Israel’s largest IPOs ), Prof. Co-founders Ami Daniel and Matan Peled both served as naval officers. It uses machine learning and predictive algorithms to analyze over 250 terabytes of data daily. See Augury’s tech in action on The Verge.

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www.joelonsoftware.com

JULY 10, 2012

There are modern algorithms to optimize how much buffer you need at every point (read up on Toyota’s lean production system and the Theory of Constraints to get started). Operating systems, or anything where software has to be installed by every user, is usually batched up. I’m also the co-founder of Stack Overflow.

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Version One Ventures

MARCH 25, 2019

is out with newer, better localization algorithms, iPad 2018 compatibility and a new virtual notes app. Gencove raised $3M to expand its genome sequencing platform, including developing new applications for agricultural markets, as well as expanding Gencove’s commercial operations in human genetics. Placenote SDK 1.6.12

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 16, 2012

Chatting with CEO and cofounder Kaufer this week, I was reminded of the fact that the company started with a very different business model in mind. TripAdvisor, in effect, was a model lean start-up with an engineering-driven, product-focused founder. As a result, gross margins are very high at 98% (not a typo!)

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Rob Go

JANUARY 10, 2017

A good example of this is Peter Boyce at General Catalyst, who seemed to be everywhere and seemed to know everyone when he was a senior at Harvard (in addition to having been a cofounder of Rough Draft Ventures, HackHarvard, and working at a USV funded startup, among other things).

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 8, 2022

Tricia is the CEO and Board Member at BELAY, Co-Host of the One Next Step Podcast, and Author of Rise Up & Lead Well: How Leveraging An Assistant Will Change Your Life & Maximize Your Time. I mean, they, you know, especially founders or companies, you know, they knew how to do the thing they did had the vision for it.

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