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Which AI Model Should You Pick for Your Startup?

Tom Tunguz

the company has no plan/interest to staff a team to manage AI infrastructure or develop deep machine learning experience / expertise in-house. the company believes the relatively high costs using these models will decline with time & scale. the product lead would like to minimize career risk by choosing a well-known player.

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Etsy goes cloud native to better scale to seasonal demands

IT World

The Etsy website and mobile app provide an online shop window to makers of hand-crafted and niche goods. The firm went public in 2015 and soon afterward made cloud migration a priority, so that it could scale its services without having to make big expensive hardware purchases up front, and to better leverage machine learning techniques.

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Mobile Productivity for Normal People

Tom Tunguz

Over the past few weeks, there has been a new refrain among consumer mobile startups that I’ve met with: we’re designing for normal people or normals as Chris Dixon would put it. Second, there is a wave to reinvent and reimagine core applications of the mobile phones. There are a few reasons for this trend.

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Mobile Social Networks: The New Customer Acquisition Powerhouse

Tom Tunguz

There’s a force in mobile app distribution that isn’t talked about much despite its magnitude: mobile social networks. Mobile social nets are becoming the predominant mobile app paid discovery/distribution platforms. Facebook’s mobile revenue will reach $2.5B this year driven by mobile CPI ads.

Mobile 100
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What Is FinOps and How Can It Help Businesses Scale Their Financial Processes

Baremetrics

FinOps, which stands for Financial Operations, combines the latest technologies and methods to help businesses scale their financial processes adequately and efficiently. Image source In sectors that only mobilize cloud computing in an auxiliary capacity, calculating cloud costs is a relatively straightforward task. Image source 3.

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7 Predictions for SaaS in 2018

Tom Tunguz

The scale is enormous. Several landscape altering SaaS acquisitions will come to fruition because of cash availability from repatriation and because there are enough public SaaS companies at scale to add material revenue and market cap to buyers. Machine learning fades as a buzzword.

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When Will the Next Wave of UI Advances Happen?

Tom Tunguz

Other times, front-end engineers innovate at the application layer, which demand downstream changes in the infrastructure to scale. and mobile applications built on iPhone and Android transformed the way users interacted with technology. Advances like chatbots haven’t yet impacted software use at scale.