Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 24, 2016

It’s no secret I believe speech is the next input mechanism. We are in the Voice-to-Text Era. I wrote in late 2014 that speech is the fastest user interface , and the newest speech recognition experiments confirm it. Andrew Ng, a luminary in the world of machine learning, and his teammates at Baidu, Stanford and University of Washington have developed Deep Speech 2 , a neural network based speech recognition system.

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CloseSaaS

AUGUST 24, 2016

Monroe Systems for Business has a legacy like few other companies. The inventor, manufacturer, and supplier of commercial calculators was founded in 1912 by Jay R. Monroe. Today, the 104-year-old company is a household name to accounting professionals.

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ReSci

AUGUST 24, 2016

In simple terms, feature engineering involves feeding knowledge into a Machine Learning model. As a refresher, a machine learning model is an algorithm that takes features as input and produces as output a prediction or classification. A feature itself is the item that…. The post Feature Engineering: A Closer Look, Part 1 [RS Labs] appeared first on ReSci.

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Saasler

AUGUST 22, 2016

Onboarding processes are critical to the success of SaaS companies. Check our first blog post of the series to see how high touch onboarding and integrations contribute to customer success. “40-60% of users who sign up for a free trial of your software or SaaS application will use it once and never come back…” – software entrepreneur Patrick McKenzie.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 23, 2016

Success has 1000 fathers and failure is an orphan. I heard this aphorism in my first year as a venture capitalist having forgotten it. There’s a lot of wisdom to it and I think it’s most applicable when interviewing. I remind myself of the same each time I speak with a candidate for a role. When I see a sterling resume, I know that I am susceptible to confirmation bias.

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Tom Tunguz

AUGUST 21, 2016

I met an entrepreneur last week with an amazing command of technology history. He spoke about the way the Xerox Alto has influenced graphical design over the past forty years. I learned a lot. For this first computer’s monitor has a portrait orientation, not a landscape orientation? His knowledge of history provides him a huge competitive advantage because he understands why things have evolved a certain way and the assumptions that underpinned previous decisions.

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