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Entrepreneurs Are Needed To Make Web Searches Smarter

Startup Professionals Musings

He calls his dream the ‘ Semantic Web ’ (or Web 3.0), meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Semantic Web will act more like a personal assistant than a search engine. Here is an entry-level benchmark for the new software personal assistants: Simple and intuitive communication.

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The Semantic Web Opens a New Age for Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

He calls his dream the ‘Semantic Web’ (or Web 3.0), meaning it understands user context. He and many other experts believe that the Semantic Web will act more like a personal assistant than a search engine. Here is an entry-level benchmark for the new software personal assistants: Simple and intuitive communication.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

That’s why lists like Ycombinator’s Requests for Startups (RFS) help entrepreneurs thinking about starting a company (or picking a problem) and can be a good barometer for founders on what’s interesting to investors right now. Looking for startups solving practical use cases that go beyond gaming.

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Build a winning IP programme for successful innovation

NZ Entrepreneur

Include sufficient and appropriate resources, effective communication, ensuring that performance is tracked so that the business learns from its IP successes and mistakes, and regular review of the programme itself. One of my clients was concerned enough about this to set up a ‘clean room’ for a new software development project.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011.

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The Small Business Guide To SEO (Search Engine Optimization) in 2017

crowdSPRING Blog

Even as we approach 2017, I continue to be amazed with how many entrepreneurs and small business owners are mostly blind to the site analytics of their businesses. For example, a bakery can target recipients in their zip code and set up specific landing pages for those campaigns. This is known as semantic SEO.

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