“Robert Smith’s private-equity firm, Vista Equity Partners, revamps software companies by following detailed protocols and gauging employees’ personalities and cognitive abilities. ‘Their process is like a factory,’ says one investor.” | learn more
This short video demos live image detection with digital information attaching to a physical object. This is a peek into the future, and I like it! | learn more
The real-estate company with a nice patina of tech has been in the news a lot lately because of their massive funding from SoftBank and eye-popping valuation. Recently I found great articles on the bull case for the business and the bear case on […]
Andrew Chen published a post that all internet marketers should read. It gets to the heart of why we must discount vanity A/B test results and vendor-promised “conversion rate lift”. He calls it conservation of intent. | learn more
Compared to many other species, humans are relatively week at processing the signals that scents offer. It seems like we may soon be able to compensate by using deep learning to process and interpret the signals found in smells. | learn more
Lime, one of the hot electric scooter companies, published a bunch of survey data to help make the case for how they’re improving mobility in San Francisco. | learn more
Andrew Chen, investor at a16z, explains why he thinks scooter startups are important and strategic to the future of transportation. I, for one, can’t wait for some bold company to bring these to Chicago so I can try! | learn more
Suhail Doshi, founder of analytics company Mixpanel, shared 17 tweets about his experience getting his first 100 customers, his first 1,000, and beyond. Really good stuff! | learn more
Venture capitalist Fred Wilson remarks on the explosion of startup activity over the course of his career. “And so, we are in a golden era of tech entrepreneurship where anyone with an idea can make a go of it.” | learn more
Andrew Chen, partner at a16z, analyzes why paid marketing can be long-term painful for a business. If you spend money this way, this is worth the read. | learn more