Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2023

After years of working in small businesses as well as large ones, I’m convinced that you shouldn’t expect to get it all right the first time , and learning how to run any business is more a result of practice and experience than just academics. If you don’t know where you are going, it is highly unlikely that you will ever get there.

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Tech.Co

JANUARY 9, 2018

This year at CES 2018 Eureka Park, the mega startup hub of the conference, the hottest early-stage startups from around the world will showcase their products and services aimed at disrupting their respective industries. Deep Learning Analytics. They also build deep learned-based products for IoT devices.

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Xconomy

MAY 31, 2016

The name of the fund—which will back startups focused on cloud computing, machine learning, and security, with an emphasis on technology that complements Microsoft’s own products and services—is Microsoft Ventures. Nagraj Kashyap (photo courtesy of Qualcomm).

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Xconomy

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

When businesses and consumers use a cloud service provider like Amazon Web Services or Apple’s iCloud, their data, photos, and music don’t get processed in the misty skies above us, as a poet friend of mine once assumed.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 27, 2016

It’s a small and elegant device that hangs about doorways and provides “anonymous people tracking as a service.” Of course if an organization buys Density sensors that data isn’t available more broadly to the market unless they opt in to sharing with others.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 12, 2015

But of course customers will have to do some technical work to migrate products and will lose DataSift functionality that Twitter / Gnip does not possess directly. Never mind that Twitter in writing specifically asked us to build this re-syndication product with them and that every step of the way encouraged us to build out the service.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Of course everything could be replicated if a massive juggernaut like Amazon or Google wanted to pour all of their resources into it but I’m talking about technology that is hard to replicate, takes years of know-how and once adopted is significantly valuable. Of course the media doesn’t do nuance well so this is an emotional topic.

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socalTECH

JUNE 4, 2018

The industry, after 40 years of being fee-for-service, is moving into a value-based payments model. The other thing that's exciting about this fund, as we look for health startups to invest in, is that there are a number of business models today in healthcare which weren't commercially vaiable five years ago.

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Tech Zulu Event

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Of course, there are physical and geographic limits to trade. What if we could digitize, accelerate, and reduce the cost of these services? This is, of course, artificial intelligence (AI), and it’s the most radical approach to solving the problem. If so, what’s the tipping point? How would we do it?

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socalTECH

JUNE 1, 2012

We caught up with co-founder Michael Wong , who told us about how the company is looking to change the model for local check-ins, and also help businesses with getting the word out about their services. My cofounder, Steven Elliott, was CTO of a company doing artificial intelligence and automated chat technology.

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socalTECH

APRIL 30, 2018

Ours is automated, and uses machine learning in the background. That was in the support space, where we were doing outsourced technical services. My initiative at Support.com was to introduce new products into the support space, as a Software-as-a-Service product. We distill that information with very high accuracy.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We are investing in founders who are leveraging the use of data, artificial intelligence-enabled technologies, and automation, to solve meaningful, systemic problems in a couple of industries, including the enterprise software, financial services, marketplace, and digital health areas. Tx Zhuo: I think that's a great question.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Uber has built its entire service around the map metaphor and real-time knowledge of driver locations. The trailblazer in the category of course was Twitter and David Sacks quickly spotted the use case for enterprise and launched Yammer, which was purchased by Microsoft for more than $1 billion.

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socalTECH

MAY 2, 2017

We spoke with Andrew about how the company pivoted from its original model after finding a huge amount of traction for its sales software and data, and its ability to guide brokers on the best practices for them to close more deals, which it is now offering as software-as-a-service. What is Digsy? READ MORE>>.

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Tech Zulu Event

APRIL 14, 2016

But all joking aside, the intention of Hanson Robotics is to build humanoid robots like Sophia to assist humans in the future to serve in industries such as health care, therapy, education, customer service and many more. “20 Of course the media took her sarcastic statement to the moon. Sophia, The Selfie Queen.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

lessons learned from his days as an entrepreneur. some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. The team, of course, is just as important as the product or idea. Location-based services, realtime & personalization (1:12:25). AI : artificial intelligence.

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Tech Zulu Event

MAY 22, 2015

Take Watson , IBM’s artificial intelligence platform as an example: it has advanced significantly since it handily defeated human opponents on the Jeopardy game show four years ago. Luckily, we are still in control of the machines, but who knows what can happen with all the connected devices and smart computers?

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