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Robinhood CEO's math-focused AI startup Harmonic valued at $1.45B(reuters.com)
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by ig1 1y ago
For stars you can pull both the locations and times using the github api.
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by ig1 1y ago
This is incorrect. It's trivial to reverse engineer and use the imessage API and there's third party services which will give you access to it.
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by ig1 2y ago
Crunchbase is $100/month, it's probably the cheapest of all the products of the market. Should be easily affordable by the average startup founder
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by ig1 2y ago
The tweet + approach is probably sufficient to bring a lawsuit and get into discovery and then it'll come down to if there's a smoking gun documents (e.g. internal emails comparing the voice to Her, etc.) It's likely that som
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by ig1 2y ago
You can time the election for when you think it would be optimal for you. (e.g. a summer month will mean students will be at their parents which swings university cities more conservative)
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by ig1 2y ago
Following IBM's acquisition of Hashicorp the moves seems unsurprising, they wouldn't want to be beholden to a competitor. We'll inevitably see others large companies follow suite - it was one thing when hashicorp was independ
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by ig1 2y ago
If you're looking for something more enterprise focused then https://www.pigment.com/ might be a good fit
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by ig1 3y ago
Blossom Capital | London Software engineer who wants to work in VC? - come help us build our data science platform and learn how to invest. Drop me a note at imran@blossomcap.com if you're interested.
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by ig1 3y ago
I think https://vespa.ai/ has the right approach in this space by focusing on being hybrid - vectors alone aren't great for production use cases, it's the combining of vectors+text that lets you use ranking to get
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by ig1 3y ago
The messiness of the real-world unfortunately doesn't play well with ambiguity in licences :) It'll be a headache for every large company which now has to send the licence to their legal teams who have to ask these kind of questio
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by ig1 3y ago
Is the financial institution made up of separate legal entities which bill each other for services, and does one of those entities provide tech infra for the other legal entities?
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by ig1 3y ago
I built my own a few years back for similar reasons: https://github.com/imranghory/treemap-squared The code is pretty straight-forward if you want to customize
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by ig1 3y ago
Which ecommerce platform are you using? - almost every platform allows a straightforward switch of payment processor.
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by ig1 4y ago
Ask your VCs/angels for help, this is the kind of thing they can definitely help with. (Speaking from experience - one of our portfolio companies had a similar challenge and we used our network to get to one of the execs of the vendor
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by ig1 4y ago
Do you think the markets for art prints or sports cards are also scams? Collectable markets behave fundamentally differently from utility good markets so it's often hard to reason about them when you try to apply logic from one type of
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by ig1 5y ago
Crunchbase is a (relatively) cheap product for this kind of research. I'd suggest talking to other vc-funded fintech founders who've raised at your stage in the last couple of years, especially for products that sit in parallel sp
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by ig1 5y ago
If they're in a financial position to do so, have them angel invest in the startup. In general my experience has been expert angels add a lot more value than advisors.
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by ig1 5y ago
Blossom Capital | Software Engineer | Full-Time | London | https://blossomcap.com Blossom is one of Europe's leading Series A VC firms, and technology is a core part of how we operate, from how we source startups to invest
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by ig1 6y ago
There’s a few factors at play; 1) There’s customers who will pay 15k for the exact same users/features as you’re willing to pay <3k for. If they offered a cheap package then those customers wouldn’t pay for the expensive package. 2)
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by ig1 6y ago
The challenge is that there aren't really any good alternatives. The alternatives suggested (Plausible, Fathom, etc.) are fine for hobby projects, blogs, etc. but they don't support any of the modern analytics required for commerc
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by ig1 6y ago
They wouldn't have been insolvent, they just wouldn't be able to process additional transactions until previous transactions had settled. The trade-off was suspending trading on some stocks vs suspending trading on everything when
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by ig1 6y ago
I'd suggest prefixing/suffixing, e.g "get<brand>.com" or "<brand>app.com"
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by ig1 6y ago
I speak to a lot of enterprise buyers ands startups and it's definitely a major issue when it comes to buying products, especially from a startup. There's a big difference between what a product does in theory vs in practice - an
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by ig1 6y ago
If you want to use it for family tree research you basically have to go to the companies that have the largest databases, because that's where you'll find familial matches (e.g. 23andme and AncestryDNA). 23andme has a better track
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by ig1 6y ago
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by ig1 6y ago
The 1994 investigation of Nintendo & Sega for monopoly practices in game distribution which is the closest historical case.
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by ig1 6y ago
I think you're confusing the common-usage meaning with the legal definition. Generally in Europe the market share threshold for monopoly investigations is 25% - Apple's market-share for mobile app sales is well above that threshol
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by ig1 6y ago
It's not about law enforcement using the data, it's about the viability of running a business that provides illegal hacking services for law enforcement.
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by ig1 6y ago
Yes, but there's generally not much medical data you can infer from those. You're right that you could reconstruct parental haplotypes, but that reveals a fairly limited amount of data, typically you'll share haplotypes with

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