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How MakeSpace Recently Closed $30 million in New Funding

Both Sides of the Table

million in capital to build out its operations in 4 cities: New York City , Los Angeles , Chicago and Washington D.C. MakeSpace doesn’t need large numbers of local storage facilities near your house, so it has a greatly reduced cost structure for its facilities. Just over a year ago I wrote about how MakeSpace had raised $17.5

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The Midas List Then and Now

View from Seed

Every company was about to be a big data company, but not an AI or Machine Learning company. Innovation is Becoming More Broadly Distributed. To a lesser degree, markets like New York are demonstrating more promise in recent years and I expect that to continue. Instagram and Snapchat hadn’t been invented yet.

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Does Moore’s Law Suddenly Matter Less?

Feld Thoughts

A post in the New York Times this morning asserted that Software Progress Beats Moore’s Law. I don’t have a good answer as to whether it’s core algorithms, distributed processing across commodity hardware (instead of dedicated Connection Machines), new structural approaches (e.g.

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9 Startups That Made Life Better In 2014

ReadWriteStart

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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McLaren Strategic Ventures Sajan Pillai Discusses the Top Five Trends for Advancing Global Technology in 2022 

The Startup Magazine

Heralding a new era of digital transformation, technologies like artificial intelligence (AI) are being infused exponentially into the world around us. They envision achieving this through collaborative and applied research with use of advanced technology like AI, machine learning, and genomics.

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Bayesian vs Frequentist A/B Testing – What’s the Difference?

ConversionXL

The Bayesian approach goes something like this ( summarized from this discussion ): Define the prior distribution that incorporates your subjective beliefs about a parameter. The posterior distribution is a probability distribution that represents your updated beliefs about the parameter after having seen the data. Gather data.

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21 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

One thing led to another, and my husband and I ended up getting an exclusive distribution contract in Canada for a major French brand. After being successful distributing other companies’ products, the next logical move was to create our own–bblüv baby essentials. So I started my content writing firm, and haven’t looked back.