Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

The birthplace of sponsored search (Overture), semantic search (Applied Semantics which became Google AdSense), comparison shopping (ShopZilla, PriceGrabber) and many others. A market leader in content, music, entertainment, textiles, engineering, aerospace and trade. An innovator in technology, especially monetization.

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Steve Blank

AUGUST 13, 2009

This could be useful information for those that want to get involved with a early stage start-up and want to evaluate it but not necessarily for funding. 2-way search is still in the works but I have the semantic extracted tags (thanks to Zemanta) feeding in to many search engines (activate realtime frankensearch).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

It’s not uncommon for incredibly smart and talented Phd’s or CS majors from Stanford to raise $10 million on an early-stage “platform&# that if it succeeds it will be huge. LA generally doesn’t have an appetite for this kind of investment at early stages. LA investors are more pragmatic.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 2, 2019

While still in its early stages, machine learning has already had a significant impact on different aspects of everyday life. The evolution of semantic-based search results in search engines. by Ronald Dod, Chief Marketing Officer and Co-founder of Visiture.

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Hunter Walker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

Semantically, these funds might say they’re not doing seed rounds, instead taking the company ‘straight to A,’ but the motivation and implications are the same.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 2, 2009

While not 100% accurate, software tools use specialized dictionaries to help semantically determine the meaning of your Tweet and rate them as positive, negative or neutral. I see many early-stage businesses pitching me today talking about solving this need.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 3, 2009

LA not only produced the obvious – MySpace – but also created the whole category of sponsored search (Overture), AdSense (Applied Semantics), Local Search (City Search), comparison shopping (PriceGrabber, Shopzilla) and lead generation (LowerMyBills). Much of this was highlighted at Twiistup.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

You know, has Google gotten or the search engines gotten so good at understanding the semantic meaning of what we’re writing that, you know, we don’t really need to worry as much about feeding the machine? Ian Cantle: I think that’s true. I think it has evolved a long way. Dan Gershenson: Yeah.

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www.drowningamerican.com

JUNE 22, 2012

Here is the original post: Early Stage Web Application Start-Up Seeking Developer/Designer. Front End Expertise: XHTML/CSS/JavaScript – Hand code, standards compliant, semantic, cross platform & cross device interfaces, jQuery, MooTools, Ext. JS (for web/internet and mobile devices).

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Scalable Startup

MAY 5, 2012

Humans make decisions by being convinced by other humans, even if the convincing is implemented by automation, data mining, and semantics. In most of the pitches I get from early stagers these days, they start talking and demoing and don’t know when to quit. Respect the human sales skills. They keep “selling” me.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 4, 2015

The members of this elite group solve novel “big data” problems under the pressure of national security, so this environment produces experts in cutting-edge predictive analytics, semantic modeling, and machine learning technology. As pointed out by Forbes , this type of data analytics is hugely relevant in B2B lead generation.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2012

And trust me, if you’re early stage you DO want to meet Bryce. He’s awesome for early-stage entrepreneurs. Meet early. And the great monetization engines of the Internet were built in LA – Overture (AdWords) & Applied Semantics (AdSense). Not so much.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Sun Microsystems has a program called Startup Essentials [link] thats designed specifically to help early stage startups get into some great equipment, free software and other great stuff too. Posted by: Jackie | September 10, 2007 12:27 PM @Matt (#20): That makes sense. Having total ownership and intimate knowledge of the spec.

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www.quora.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

" Totally agreed with you on the interpersonal dynamics, but "standards everyone agrees are fair" is a philosophical/semantic sticking point. How much equity do early employees typically get? See more related questions How much equity (%) should be in the employee pool at an early stage (angel round) company?

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

IBM Global Entrepreneur , the computer giant’s entrepreneurship outreach arm is looking for the smartest early stage startups around the globe that will help solve tomorrow’s problems. Check out the SmartCamp Israel site for more details (in Hebrew) and watch the video on IBM’s push to the cloud: .

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Many projects fail because clients dont communicate the specs during the early stages. I myself have worked for a few overseas projects ( as a programmer ) so I can relate to the need for better documentation and communication from the clients side. This will result ( most likely ) result in a bad designed system.

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