SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. Deep algorithms? Along the way, this gradually turned into hunting programmers in the wild. Is this a Wordpress hack?

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Fractional CTO Southern California Startup Mobile 349

Hearpreneur

JULY 24, 2020

Thanks to Mark Woodbury, Minerva Equity ! #12- Post the horrific, public death of George Floyd, the Black Lives Matter movement has sparked a call to accountability to all institutions, in particular companies, lack of action and commitment to equity, when it comes to supporting and retaining womxn of color, specifically Black employees.

Entrepreneur 136

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Tim O’Reilly just wrote a great post suggesting that in labour marketplaces, like the one Uber operates, algorithms might offer a better deal to workers than regulation. It’s a complex argument and Tim’s long post is well worth a read if you have the time.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. (That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.). 2) Researching a topic.

Social Media 60

Social Media Technical Review Media Private Equity 60

SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

His goal was to find a programmer who would come in as an early partner and work as an Equity-Only Developer. At that point, you can't really just try to find someone to build it on the side, do equity only, etc. Deep algorithms? Along the way, this gradually turned into hunting programmers in the wild. Is this a Wordpress hack?

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Fractional CTO Southern California Startup Mobile 296

David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

Business users can take control and apply algorithmic analysis to real-time datasets with ease instead of waiting in cue for sophisticated programmers to spoon feed them insights. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms deposit in try (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/ distressed/secondary funds).

Programming 128

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 128

Haystack

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. And will society demand to have more of the algorithmic black box that feeds it information exposed in public?

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David Teten

JUNE 22, 2012

Business users can take control and apply algorithmic analysis to real-time datasets with ease instead of waiting in cue for sophisticated programmers to spoon feed them insights. Founded in 1970, NAIC firms deposit in try (early stage/later stage) and private equity (growth/buyout/mezzanine/ distressed/secondary funds).

Programming 114

Programming Accredited Investor Naming New York 114

David Teten

MAY 1, 2013

First, any branding and SEO equity you built up under the old name are jeopardized. The automated algorithms can’t account for intangibles like name fit for the buyer’s business and the seller’s speculation on its worth. So he gave the owner some equity in his startup, which was worth a few million dollars when Mint exited.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 24, 2014

Sophisticated algorithms are gradually taking on a number of tasks performed by paralegals, contract and patent lawyers, particularly by scanning thousands of documents to assist in pre-trial research (Markoff, 2011). Estimates by MGI suggest that sophisticated algorithms could substitute for approx 140m knowledge workers worldwide.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Technical Review Stock 96

Steve Blank

JULY 7, 2009

I think customer feedback comes in a very unstructured manner, hence it is difficult to apply an algorithm on it. luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building. This is where it becomes an art as it requires skill (entrepreneurial?)

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Customer Development Developer Silicon Valley Customer 124

YoungUpstarts

MARCH 21, 2012

HP 12C Financial Calculator : Businesspeople rely on this calculator and its algorithms and functions for quickly crunching numbers, and now it’s on the iPad. Thomson Reuters Marketboard : Students and professionals alike can take advantage of this app to learn about global equity performance. MBA Learning Solutions 2.0:

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Audio eCommerce Stock Technical Review 185

Austin Startup

JULY 22, 2021

Austin based ZPEG developed an upgraded compression algorithm for streaming videos based on an advanced human visual model that reduces streaming costs for 4K streams by 30%. Dallas’ YouGoNatural designs luxury headwraps and offers an extensive collection of looks that makes protecting hair a stylish experience.

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San Antonio Dallas Houston Founder 107

Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 23, 2023

This community of practice, in fact, our investors who bought half the company, the growth equity firm, they came to attraction community event. (04:51): And it's funny, we were, when we sold half the company to growth equity firm, they're like, what is this inflection point here? John Jantsch (25:04): It's almost its own algorithm.

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ReadWriteStart

JUNE 4, 2012

It makes it legal for crowdfunding sites to give actual equity to investors - not just thank-you gifts such as T-shirts and coffee mugs - and it’s expected to draw a vast amount of capital to crowdfunding. In the past couple of weeks alone, two new equity-model crowdfunding sites have gone live, Fundable and CrowdFunder.

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SEC Equity Aggregator Forecast 143

Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Netflix's approach of combining customer data and algorithms to forecast the movies a consumer will choose—even without first looking for it—is probably an appropriate example. I plan to use a combination of personal capital, debt financing, and private equity investment to fund the business. #13- Custom content creation.

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Affiliate United States Entrepreneur Software Review 62

Growthink Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Computer algorithm – based investor, where the short term is measured not in months but in hours and seconds. Give up the buy and hold mutual fund ghost, especially if it involves paying management fees, and if you insist on investing in public equity, then attempt to do so via more trading – driven investment strategies.

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Stock Vesting Japan Algorithm 48

abovethecrowd.com

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Katrina has also proven herself in the recruiting field, having recruited Eric Colson from Netflix to run analytics and algorithms, Mike Smith from WalMart.com to run operations, and Jeff Barrett from Opower to build engineering. Likewise, she had recruited both Julie Bornstein from Sephora and Sukhinder Singh from Google as advisers.

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eCommerce Technical Review North America San Francisco 62

SoCal CTO

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

We needed the matching algorithm. Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers Technology Roles in Startups Want to Know the Difference Between a CTO and a VP Engineering? Simple MVPs get built with less the 3 Programmer Months worth of effort (that's 3 months a single programmer working full-time).

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Software By Rob

NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Whoever thought it was a good idea to build a house with a flat roof should be forced to duplicate Google’s PageRank algorithm in assembler. Join nearly 6,000 startup entrepreneurs by subscribing to my RSS feed. My roof is leaking. In five places. So I called a roofer, Fred, to give me a quote to fix this mess.

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Software Review Software Developers Software Development RSS 56

www.cscyphers.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Basically, the kind of technical people you want for a startup — whip smart, adaptable, willing to work long hours for equity instead of cash and highly competent — that person is probably already out there, doing her own startup. Or massively distributed data persistence systems and algorithms. Categories. Business (60).

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

It is a grant, not an equity funding. The startups are not selling equity or issuing new shares. Powerful matching algorithms are used to allocate the projects and ensure a stringent and high-quality evaluation process. EUR 3 billion are available to fund a maximum of 7,500 startups by 2020! Why non-dilutive?

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Intellectual Property Angel Investor Dilution Startup 66

Women Entrepreneurs Can

MARCH 25, 2021

The financial report consists of a statement of changes in equity, a balance sheet, a cash flow statement, an income statement, and notes that have the summary of compelling accounting policies and more explanatory notes. How Audits Are Getting Transformed by Technology Today.

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Artificial Inteligence Technology Analytics Balance Sheet 52

Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Kintrans Sign language kiosks through machine learning algorithms. Is trying to crack equities trading through deep learning algorithms $100K Winner The $ 100K was won by New Knowledge. I believe this same team is part of Digitial-Nebula , a enterprise AI services company. Substrate.ai I have known the team for sometime now.

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David Teten

MAY 8, 2012

Currently, these Crowdfunding sites don’t give donors any equity in the companies. Indiegogo also helps campaigns gain and measure traction using the “GoGo Factor,” which is tracked automatically and uses a custom algorithm to determine which campaigns get promoted on the homepage, on the site’s blog, or in media mentions.

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Securities and Exchange Commission IRR Entrepreneur Angel Investor 148

Up and Running

APRIL 25, 2014

When Peter asks what Richard’s company does, Richard starts spouting off the details of what his product—an algorithm—does. Peter fires back: “The algorithm is the product of the company! What does the cap table look like as you bring on new investors and team members that have equity? Of course, Richard doesn’t have one.

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Silicon Valley Business Plan Entrepreneur Cap Table 104

The Equity Kicker

MAY 6, 2014

Each swipe generates a bit of information about the user which is used to power and refine the recommendation algorithm. One of the exciting things here is that users love swiping – the average downloader has swiped 400 shoes (and rising), with some swiping over 10,000. This is the sense in which swiping is the new liking.

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Transformify

MAY 13, 2019

Usually, the early employees receive equity, have more freedom if compared to their peers who join corporates and learn fast. While most job boards simply list jobs and allow to upload your resume, the HR Software solutions use algorithms to match your profile to the jobs right for you based on your skills and salary expectations.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Medicine is becoming big data and predictive and learning algorithms are the tools that will drive insight from that data. The current system isn’t very scientific at all.

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Artificial Inteligence Algorithm Mobile Naming 138

The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 12, 2013

Having identified these characteristics scientists are now working to design around them, as detailed in the rest of the Economist article. In summary progress is being made but it is very early days.

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The Startup Toolkit

JANUARY 3, 2013

If (when) they change the algorithm, you’re kapoot. I briefly thought you might mitigate the risk by building up a portfolio of several, but they all have the same failure point (the search algorithm). It’s like watching a tiny private equity firm doing its thing. But the income from a site like that is just so fragile.

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Private Equity Algorithm Affiliate SEO 31

The Equity Kicker

APRIL 25, 2013

The obvious answer is a clever combination of playlists, social inspiration and algorithmic recommendations. Netflix, Amazon, Google and Apple will try to own this layer as well, but there maybe space for a startup here, particularly given that consumers may want their discovery service to cover more than just one silo.

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The Equity Kicker

MARCH 8, 2013

The short answer is that the inventors of Bitcoin developed an algorithm which determines how many Bitcoins are in circulation and put in safeguards to prevent third parties abusing the system by creating fake Bitcoins – there is more detail on Wikipedia. By now you are probably wondering how it works.

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Vesting Government Algorithm Open Source 149

Professor VC

JANUARY 27, 2011

Instead, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. " I wrote this right after I had read about a new fund, Right Side Capital , that planned on investing in 100 companies a year without ever meeting the team or vetting the idea. So, after my initial reaction of "Are they friggin serious?"

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Technical Review Due Diligence Silicon Valley San Jose 31

The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Examples include ranking or voting systems as we see in Product Hunt and Stack Overflow, algorithms that incorporate user signals e.g. Page Rank, and manual system that takes user feedback as a core input e.g. the app stores. However, it’s not clear to me how the discovery process will work.

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Algorithm Matching Internet Founder 99

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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Search Technical Review SEO Small Business 31

This is going to be BIG.

JUNE 22, 2010

Here are a few: Equity Private/Finem Respice : Having been in and around the private equity world for almost ten years now, I found this blogger’s takes on a middle market boutique banking firm to be spot on—and highly entertaining.

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