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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

This method was perfected by Gil Elbaz and his team at Applied Semantics in LA and in what some have called “ the most important acquisition ever made by Google ” they acquired the company for $102 million before Google had even IPO’d. And LA is the largest retail & trade employment metropolitan zone in the country.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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How Google’s Machine Learning Is Impacting Local Store Traffic

YoungUpstarts

by Ronald Dod, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder of Visiture. The evolution of semantic-based search results in search engines. Machine learning is predicted to change the world at a similar scale or greater than the industrial revolution in the nineteenth century.

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A Guide: Successfully Hiring Code Bootcamp Grads

For Entrepreneurs

Rob is the co-founder of Salsify, a leading cloud-based product content management and syndication solution that I invested in in 2013 and where I currently serve on the board. Prior to founding Salsify, Rob was at IBM, Endeca and Cambridge Semantics in senior product management roles.

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The Rising Importance Of Images In Google Search

Duct Tape Marketing

Mike i s the Co-founder and Analyst at Near Media where he researches and reports on reputation, reviews, and local search. He's the co-founder and analyst at near media, where he researches and reports on reputation reviews and local search. I think you need to think about it semantically.

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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech: 2016 Update

View from Seed

There’s Semantic Machines , one of the best collections of AI and ML minds in the world, led by serial entrepreneur Dan Roth. Webb, as well as security-focused TenEleven , co-founded by Mark Hatfield. Want businesses with massive reach and international presence? Want hardcore futuristic technology?

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

Both Sides of the Table

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. I know that I call them often to co-invest. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade.

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