Tag: business

Silicon Valley: the NIMBYland

It is a well-known fact that, much like the treacherous waters surrounding Alcatraz Island, the housing market in the Bay area is a cold and unforgiving place to be if one doesn’t have the means to stay afloat. The price of housing has been increasing steadily over the last few decades, following the boom of… Read more Silicon Valley: the NIMBYland

A/B Testing: The Past, Today, and the Future

This week’s guest speaker, Suja Viswesan, director of engineering at LinkedIn, talked about A/B testing, a very important component of LinkedIn’s initiative called “People You May Know.” She stated, “A/B testing is the only way to prove causality and quantify feature impact.”1 Building the right product based on big data is challenging in itself. A/B… Read more A/B Testing: The Past, Today, and the Future

IS YOUR CLOUD-BASED, AI-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY SOLVING A REAL PROBLEM?

BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front) Cloud and open source technologies have lowered the up-start cost of tech ventures. But the success of (most, if not all,) businesses still hinges upon a real value proposition. The dual and the genesis of a real value proposition is a great pain point.   The Lucky PhD Co-Founders  … Read more IS YOUR CLOUD-BASED, AI-DRIVEN TECHNOLOGY SOLVING A REAL PROBLEM?

Cloud Sports...

Data storage has long been an insatiable thirst for consumers and commercial enterprises alike. From a storage perspective, businesses and individuals wish to archive everything they possibly can. Rooms that were once filled with filing cabinets transformed into rooms full of hard drives. For the individual, the worn and torn scrapbook turned into the portable… Read more Cloud Sports...

They Know All About You: Personalised Customer Profiles

A case study of Square, Inc. Montse Medina talked about how Jetlore’s AI technology optimises user experience with personalised content. Their prediction platform takes consumer preferences and maps their behaviour into predictive attributes, where media companies, retailers, and hospitality services can merchandise intelligently, and market the right products for the right audience. The up and… Read more They Know All About You: Personalised Customer Profiles

Industries and Jobs Ripe for Disruption

Technologies disrupt the old and the new. Even those aware of new technologies and competitors are disrupted. This is true for companies, industries, and job fields (or collectively ‘Markets’). In this post, I want to explore a) types of disruption, b) determinants of disruptions, and c) markets primed for future disruption. Types of Disruption There… Read more Industries and Jobs Ripe for Disruption

The uncertainty of relevance

Having ideas is easy, we produce myriads a day, and when it is about deciding on their adoption when they will directly affect our personal life; it is quasi-immediate to discriminate between good and bad ideas. Why is it then so difficult to predict the success rate of an idea to flourish, a product to… Read more The uncertainty of relevance

How to Leverage Machine Learning in All Aspects of Building Your Business (Even when you don’t have a tech product)

I’m not an engineer, I usually say, but I speak engineering. As a business person in a tech startup, I had to learn the basics of how programming works, what it can do and not do. It is a great asset to be able to model and specify what a product or organization should do… Read more How to Leverage Machine Learning in All Aspects of Building Your Business (Even when you don’t have a tech product)

Could Artificial Intelligence be working purely for you and me?

Companies like Facebook, Google, Amazon, and IBM, have been recruiting top A.I. scholars and putting them in corporate research positions where they are allowed to publish academic papers and refine their studies. As these businesses invest heavily and gain some of the biggest minds in the field, some technologists have expressed concern that these technology… Read more Could Artificial Intelligence be working purely for you and me?

Let’s Go Smart and Forget The Rest?

No doubt more and more things will be connected to the Internet. The result is more data, and a lot more data. According to a report by Mckinsey, the number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices would increase to 30 billion by 2020. Wide-ranging applications of IoT are being developed, it will change the way… Read more Let’s Go Smart and Forget The Rest?