View from Seed

JULY 31, 2014

And since we will continue to look proactively at new seed-stage tech startups over the next few years, the question becomes: What, then, will these companies look like? The internet continues the disintermediation of content creation. Step-Function Ad Tech. Empowering Content Creators.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The technological breakthrough, announced in 2017 , is the “federated” component—the ability to train a machine learning model without a centralized repository of data: It works like this: your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the changes as a small focused update.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. Urs Cete, the Head of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments , notes, “If you think you can provide just money, you will be disintermediated.”. Some corporate VCs even have seed funds.

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Occam's Razor

MARCH 30, 2017

It was believed, due to the immense complexity of the game of Go, that computers were at least a decade away from beating humans. Our current red flags are sourced from what human means today, what works means today, what our relationship with technology means today. Engineering, economics, and neuroscience are also helpful.

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