VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

New technology developments in AI and graphic engines are changing that paradigm. What if the burden of distribution was removed by clever recommendation engines as we’ve seen with TikTok? Gaming Engines. The engine uses the input of content it fed, uses deep learning algorithms and logic to generate new text.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Green Engineer 144

Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. Just about anything can be patented : circuits, hardware, software, applied algorithms, formulas, designs, user interfaces, applications, systems. Scientific principles or pure mathematical algorithms cannot be patented.

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Intellectual Property IP Software Review Non-disclosure Agreement 213

Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2020

The LexSet Co-Founders (left to right) CEO Francis Bitonti , President Leslie Oliver Karpas , and COO Azam Khan won $250,000 in Verizon’s Built on 5G Challenge The Forrest Four-Cast: March 3, 2020 LexSet serves AI engineers, especially those with limited resources, with a better way to annotate photos.

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YoungUpstarts

JUNE 4, 2020

One of the main benefits of a carefully written press release is that it can help your site rank higher on search engines. Now Google’s complex algorithm can identify poor quality content and punish your site for it. Other writers and bloggers can help distribute information.

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Social Media Public Relations SEO Aggregator 177

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. And what happens is you have a lot of people that are either engineering or non-engineering that end up in PM roles that can’t think across the whole thing… “. Human Computer Interaction. Protocol Digital Life.

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Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

In terms of search engine optimization, volume-based link building is dead and unnatural link building is dying. Thankfully, with advanced web spam fighting algorithm updates such as Penguin and Panda, back-room link building is gone and now content really is king. Staying Ahead Of The SEO Curve. It’s just that simple.

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Up and Running

JUNE 14, 2017

Then, about two weeks before launch, I distributed a survey to those 256 partners. No matter how complex the idea, there is always a way to serve customers manually behind the scenes or by re-engineering existing tools to come up with the closest experience of our future scalable product. 60 percent of respondents chose premium!

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Technical Review Distribution Redemption Demand 96

Occam's Razor

OCTOBER 21, 2013

As an analyst, I was upset that this change would hurt my ability to analyze the effectiveness of my beloved search engine optimization (SEO) efforts – which are really all about finding the right users using optimal content strategies. We are headed towards having zero referring keywords from Google and, perhaps, other search engines.

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Search SEO Analytics Engineer 154

YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 29, 2019

It’s being implemented in many algorithms such as facial, speech, and object recognition, natural language processing and predictive analytics. Machine Learning roams around data and algorithms. You can practice Machine Learning without complex algorithms, but not without good and efficient data.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2019

The evolution of semantic-based search results in search engines. Since machine learning algorithms feed off data to create patterns, Google has been in a powerful position to make an impact in everything from online search to local retail. Machine learning’s reach extends far past the distribution of local store traffic.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

These images, when processed with his company’s proprietary algorithms, would be able to tell farmers how healthy their plants were, whether there were diseases or bugs, whether there was enough fertilizer, and enough water. All of sudden what was an additional engineering and development effort now became a small, variable cost.

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The Startup Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2022

This information is then used to distribute resources such as solar panels efficiently. For example, farmers could predict the yield of their farms using technology and different algorithms by analyzing chemicals, weather, vegetation, and soil moisture. Also, utility bills can be used to understand and predict energy usage and demand.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 22, 2007

It seems that four different models of "discussion creation" have occurred: Organice Discussion - someone posts something interesting, lots of bloggers post on the topic, distributed discussion ensues. Tag Memes - Someone posts a question and "Tags" five people to give their response. See Five Things Meme as an example. in Computer Science.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 25, 2019

Most shoppers check search engines before buying a product. Search engines have ways of indexing and surfacing web content and value fresh and original content. Customer reviews can help feed your content machine, thus keeping your brand favored by search engine algorithms. Reviews Promote Credibility and Trustworthiness.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 30, 2014

Docker is an open platform designed to let developers and sysadmins build, ship and run distributed apps from anywhere. The main contribution of the open-source Docker software is to simplify the distribution of applications by standardizing their properties and shipping them together with their entire environment in neat containers.

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API Software Review Technical Review Startup 60

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

He was a lead for distributed teams in India, Europe and the U.S., QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. The amount of blog posts by disgruntled engineers of startups ranting about the period of merging is legion. Let's move on, shall we? Generic CS questions.

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Europe India Hiring Engineer 139

VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

She makes money for the platform that hosts her without receiving the legal and financial protections of employee status, or the stock options typically given to the platform’s engineers, designers, and managers. “What the creator economy promises, and what it actually does”, The New Yorker.

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The Startup Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. On the other hand, encryption creates algorithms that convert data into code that can only be seen by the intended receiver. They are highly detrimental to FinTechs because many APIs lack rate limiters.

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Artificial Inteligence Software Review Web API 88

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

I'm an engineer. Meaning events, magazines, blogs, they read, so you could distribute your content there. So it gives you content, multiple distribution channels, and you start building this audience. John Jantsch (25:04): It's almost its own algorithm. My first job, I wanted to go into entrepreneurship.

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Lightspeed Venture Partners

OCTOBER 5, 2013

When the problem space is complex you arrive at solutions fastest through a mix of software and people engineering. Algorithms alone don’t cut it. The challenge ahead lies in translating this technology + human solution into a product that can be distributed through established sales channels for maximum scale.

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ConversionXL

JUNE 20, 2019

It’s the second largest search engine in the world, and content from their platform reaches more 18–49 year-olds than any broadcast or cable TV network. Many occupy the Featured Snippet box, with snippets selected algorithmically. The plan targets data scientists and video engineers. billion videos per month. views per person).

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Hosting Video Technical Review Software Review 127

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Too often, the numbers you see in case studies are lacking valid statistical inferences: either they rely too heavily on an A/B testing tool’s unreliable stats engine and/or they haven’t addressed the common pitfalls […]. It’s difficult to manage this by creating manual rules inside your personalization tool.

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SVPG

OCTOBER 20, 2013

A better search engine. Whether that''s leveraging sensors, moving to the cloud, new battery technology, or newly invented algorithms, each of these can potentially enable new and better solutions. Sales is concerned with distribution. There are countless examples of this, in every industry. A better music service.

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Algorithm Differentiation Engineer Technology 93

www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Clearspring just did this; they held a Big Data meetup and were pretty open about trying to recruit engineers — which was a smart move in a target rich environment they created inside their own office. cc: @jeremyphoward >> 2012/02/28. Categories.

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thebarefootvc

JUNE 6, 2013

Over the years I have looked at recommendation engines, wearable technology (in this case, fabric that detected heart activity), biosensors, home monitoring, video analysis and natural language processing algorithms.

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ConversionXL

DECEMBER 13, 2022

A/B Testing, multivariate testing, and bandit algorithms: What’s the Difference? Bandit algorithms are A/B/n tests that update in real time based on the performance of each variation. In essence, a bandit algorithm starts by sending traffic to two (or more) pages: the original and the variation(s). Add it as a variable.

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Analytics Technical Review Software Review Framework 127

Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

You just constantly test little micro-changes and follow a hill-climbing algorithm to build your product. How to get distribution advantage on the iPhone How to Usability Test your Site for Free The one line split-test, or how to A/B all the tim. This is not what I have in mind. How to listen to customers, and not just the loud.

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San Francisco Lean Technical Review Continuous Deployment 166

Start Up Blog

MARCH 31, 2012

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. Well, the global economy learned the hard way that the people running the finance industry are not a bunch of geniuses who worked out algorithms beyond our comprehension. The truth about investment bankers.

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Investment Bankers Algorithm Sales Salary 88

Genuine VC

OCTOBER 3, 2007

There has been a lot of coverage this past week about the recent upgrading of search engines' user experiences to include other content-type results. universal & blended vertical search was a hot topic at the Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose last month), but I have heard a lot less buzz about it in startup circles.

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www.starling-software.com

OCTOBER 8, 2012

algorithms Unable to find the average of numbers in an array (Its hard to believe but Ive interviewed such candidates) Basic sorting, searching and data structure traversal and retrieval algorithms Tree, Graph, simple greedy and divide and conquer algorithms, is able to understand the relevance of the levels of this matrix.

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Software Review Technical Review SQL API 108

ConversionXL

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Still, the queries that continue to shift from text to voice are not distributed evenly across all topics. Most answers from voice assistants—Amazon’s Echo (controlled by Alexa), Google Home, Google Assistant, Cortana, and Siri—are extracted from search engines. Some queries (“What’s the weather going to be like tomorrow?”)

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B2B eCommerce Search Technical Review 100

Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 2, 2017

I have been earning a living from search engine optimization for over 12 years and I’ve tried every tactic at one time or another. Ever since Google started dropping algorithmic bombs around 2011 (think Panda, Penguin, and so on), SEO industry behavior has changed. This is a bold statement, but hear me out.

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Kansas City Kansas SEO Marketing 58

Start Up Blog

MARCH 31, 2012

If we work in a sales role that has guaranteed distribution – then again we are not really in a sales role. Well, the global economy learned the hard way that the people running the finance industry are not a bunch of geniuses who worked out algorithms beyond our comprehension. The truth about investment bankers.

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Investment Bankers Algorithm Sales Salary 48

Occam's Razor

AUGUST 12, 2013

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? Apply the right model and you will not only distribute conversions across multiple touch points, but you can also look at the impact on the CPA (this really is OMG, I peed in my pants a little cool). My distribution above is a good starting point.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 18, 2019

Railroads and telegraphs enabled new networks of communication and distribution. Electrification meant people could suddenly do far more at night than they’d ever done before. There was a massive shift from rural living to cities. Overall, life got faster and more connected, and much, much richer with possibilities.

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Artificial Inteligence Government Silicon Valley .Net 53

news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

His friends at General Electric said he was wasting his time on the gas combustion engine because the world was going electric. -- ErrantX 215 days ago | link. The story of the v-8 engine is a bit different. His quote on the subject, "no amount of finance will cure mismanagement". From "Think and Grow Rich".

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Stealth Technical Review Startup Software Review 41

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

FEBRUARY 14, 2010

At least 50% of the tracks I listen to on YouTube come from Armada, especially if I follow a music trail going from one track to the next following the “similar video&# recommendations provided by the YouTube algorithm. Watching Armada use YouTube is interesting, because the music is free, but obviously the company makes money.

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Media Marketing Distribution Internet 89