By Vasudev Ram
Saw this post and video today:
Both are about Fred Wilson, NYC-based venture capitalist (of Union Square Ventures), giving the inaugural Georges Doriot lecture at MIT.
General Georges Doriot Lectureship: Fred Wilson
The video is also embedded below.
Fred's blog post about the talk is here:
http://avc.com/2017/04/my-talk-at-mit-last-week/.
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Wednesday, April 26, 2017
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Video: Rails creator DHH interview by Jason Calacanis on This Week in Startups
By Vasudev Ram
Saw this video via a Disqus comment:
Video: Rails creator DHH interviewed by Jason Calacanis on This Week in Startups
Started watching, seems interesting. Might want to skip some of the start where a show viewer calls in, to get to the main story.
At some part it is like the interviewee is interviewing the interviewer. Video also embedded below.
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Saw this video via a Disqus comment:
Video: Rails creator DHH interviewed by Jason Calacanis on This Week in Startups
Started watching, seems interesting. Might want to skip some of the start where a show viewer calls in, to get to the main story.
At some part it is like the interviewee is interviewing the interviewer. Video also embedded below.
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Saturday, February 14, 2015
Google Capital coming to invest in India
By Vasudev Ram
Google Capital is coming to India to set up base from which invest in Indian startups, says the Economic Times.
Excerpts:
[ is setting up its growth capital arm in India to double down on startup investing as it turns bullish on fast-growing local emerging companies that have drawn attention from big investors across the world.
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will hire a team and invest in growth-stage companies in India, a market in which investors ranging from Japanese communications group SoftBank to Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba have recently made big bets. "It made a lot of sense to focus a lot of attention here now," David Lawee, partner at Google Capital
...
A serial entrepreneur, Lawee counts the move to set up office in India as "the most important" decision Google Capital has made in recent months
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"I want to invest up to the limit of what's reasonable," said Lawee, who was the head of corporate development at Google until 2012.
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While Google Capital, founded in 2013, has invested nearly $500 million in 11 companies globally, India will be its first destination where it has an office outside the US.
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The California-based company also invests in early-stage companies through Google Ventures. "The companies that I'm seeing here have much more upside than most companies I'm seeing in the US," said Lawee. ]
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Google Capital is coming to India to set up base from which invest in Indian startups, says the Economic Times.
Excerpts:
[ is setting up its growth capital arm in India to double down on startup investing as it turns bullish on fast-growing local emerging companies that have drawn attention from big investors across the world.
...
will hire a team and invest in growth-stage companies in India, a market in which investors ranging from Japanese communications group SoftBank to Chinese ecommerce giant Alibaba have recently made big bets. "It made a lot of sense to focus a lot of attention here now," David Lawee, partner at Google Capital
...
A serial entrepreneur, Lawee counts the move to set up office in India as "the most important" decision Google Capital has made in recent months
...
"I want to invest up to the limit of what's reasonable," said Lawee, who was the head of corporate development at Google until 2012.
...
While Google Capital, founded in 2013, has invested nearly $500 million in 11 companies globally, India will be its first destination where it has an office outside the US.
...
The California-based company also invests in early-stage companies through Google Ventures. "The companies that I'm seeing here have much more upside than most companies I'm seeing in the US," said Lawee. ]
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Wednesday, January 7, 2015
Teleborder facilitates labor immigration through technology
By Vasudev RamSeen via Hacker News.
Teleborder's goals seems interesting.
Teleborder is a startup that is trying "to bring free movement of labor to the world through technology. Right now, that means helping companies manage immigration, tax, and relocation for their expatriate employees. We grew our customer base 10x in 2014 and are looking to beat that in 2015. We're currently a tight-knit team of 13 and well funded by top tier investors, including YC (S13)."
The picture above is of a Chinese passport from the Qing Dynasty, 24th Year of the Guangxu Reign - 1898.
From Wikipedia.
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Teleborder's goals seems interesting.
Teleborder is a startup that is trying "to bring free movement of labor to the world through technology. Right now, that means helping companies manage immigration, tax, and relocation for their expatriate employees. We grew our customer base 10x in 2014 and are looking to beat that in 2015. We're currently a tight-knit team of 13 and well funded by top tier investors, including YC (S13)."
The picture above is of a Chinese passport from the Qing Dynasty, 24th Year of the Guangxu Reign - 1898.
From Wikipedia.
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Sunday, November 16, 2014
Scaled Inference, a cloud AI startup by ex-Googlers, gets Khosla Ventures $8M funding
By Vasudev Ram
Saw the news via this tweet by @asenkut - Aydin Senkut, Google's first product manager, and founder of Felicis Ventures.
Here is a TechCrunch article about the funding of Scaled Inference by Khosla Ventures:
Excerpts from the article:
[
Scaled Inference, a startup founded by two ex-Googlers that is building a cloud-based platform for third parties that want to use artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to run their apps and services – has raised another round of funding to continue its development and hiring, a Series A round of $8 million from Khosla Ventures.
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has been putting together some of the first products (or services) that will run on top of that platform: pattern recognition, anomaly detection, prediction, and predictive ranking, which will be accessible by developers by way of a set of APIs.
...
As an example of where pattern recognition might be applied, he says, take a bank or credit card company like Visa.
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“The pattern recognition APIs can then be used to detect correlations such as increased spending during certain time periods, at certain locations, by certain customers, on certain items, for certain combinations of these attributes,” he says. In turn, this type of insight can help guide important business decisions
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this is a long-term vision, but this is one of the reasons that Scaled Inference went with the investors that it has done, Sercinoglu says. “Vinod Khosla is a long term investor, one of the longest-term thinkers in the business, and ours is a long term vision for AI and machine learning. That really resonated with him.”
Longer term, he says, “We seek to offer the same powerful technology as a public cloud API to everyone and for virtually any application; anything from personalized magazines to intelligent context-sensitive address books, app launchers, e-commerce sites,
]
They are not open to the public yet.
The idea seems interesting, not just for the applications mentioned, but also for the fact that they plan to offer the service as a public cloud API, available to everyone, so looks like it could have a lot of potential.
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Saw the news via this tweet by @asenkut - Aydin Senkut, Google's first product manager, and founder of Felicis Ventures.
Here is a TechCrunch article about the funding of Scaled Inference by Khosla Ventures:
Excerpts from the article:
[
Scaled Inference, a startup founded by two ex-Googlers that is building a cloud-based platform for third parties that want to use artificial intelligence and machine learning tools to run their apps and services – has raised another round of funding to continue its development and hiring, a Series A round of $8 million from Khosla Ventures.
...
has been putting together some of the first products (or services) that will run on top of that platform: pattern recognition, anomaly detection, prediction, and predictive ranking, which will be accessible by developers by way of a set of APIs.
...
As an example of where pattern recognition might be applied, he says, take a bank or credit card company like Visa.
...
“The pattern recognition APIs can then be used to detect correlations such as increased spending during certain time periods, at certain locations, by certain customers, on certain items, for certain combinations of these attributes,” he says. In turn, this type of insight can help guide important business decisions
...
this is a long-term vision, but this is one of the reasons that Scaled Inference went with the investors that it has done, Sercinoglu says. “Vinod Khosla is a long term investor, one of the longest-term thinkers in the business, and ours is a long term vision for AI and machine learning. That really resonated with him.”
Longer term, he says, “We seek to offer the same powerful technology as a public cloud API to everyone and for virtually any application; anything from personalized magazines to intelligent context-sensitive address books, app launchers, e-commerce sites,
]
They are not open to the public yet.
The idea seems interesting, not just for the applications mentioned, but also for the fact that they plan to offer the service as a public cloud API, available to everyone, so looks like it could have a lot of potential.
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Thursday, August 16, 2012
“Larry and Sergey are crazy." Like a fox?
In a valley of VC clones, Google Ventures does more than just write checks | VentureBeat
- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com
Friday, August 3, 2012
Faasos, a fast-food chain, uses Twitter
By Vasudev Ram
Faasos is a fast-food chain (called QSR - Quick Service Restaurant) in the industry jargon, based in Pune and Mumbai (as of now - it is expanding to other Indian cities).
They have decent food at fairly reasonable rates (given the inflation in India from the last few years, that is).
Among other things, they use Twitter to communicate with their customers.
I order food from Faasos now and then.
Links about Faasos:
http://www.faasos.com
http://www.faasos.com/menu.html
http://www.faasos.com/press.html
Sequoia Capital invested $5 million in them.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-10-12/news/30270949_1_gv-ravishankar-sequoia-capital-india-paneer
http://business.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?278597
http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/ethnic-foods-investors-money/1/19596.html
https://twitter.com/faasos
- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises
Faasos is a fast-food chain (called QSR - Quick Service Restaurant) in the industry jargon, based in Pune and Mumbai (as of now - it is expanding to other Indian cities).
They have decent food at fairly reasonable rates (given the inflation in India from the last few years, that is).
Among other things, they use Twitter to communicate with their customers.
I order food from Faasos now and then.
Links about Faasos:
http://www.faasos.com
http://www.faasos.com/menu.html
http://www.faasos.com/press.html
Sequoia Capital invested $5 million in them.
http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2011-10-12/news/30270949_1_gv-ravishankar-sequoia-capital-india-paneer
http://business.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?278597
http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/ethnic-foods-investors-money/1/19596.html
https://twitter.com/faasos
- Vasudev Ram - Dancing Bison Enterprises
Saturday, July 28, 2012
Sunday, May 13, 2012
"The Valley is infected by the Dilbert view" - Marc Andreessen
Though the post linked above starts with other stuff, it also has a talk between Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, and some Q&A with an audience. Thought-provoking and likely controversial - and not just for the quote I used as title of this post.
- Vasudev Ram
Friday, April 27, 2012
Me like competition, say Google Ventures' Maris
http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/165/google-ventures
Good one ... :)
- Vasudev Ram
www.dancingbison.com
Friday, May 13, 2011
$3 million funding for open source Scala / Typesafe Stack and company
By Vasudev Ram - www.dancingbison.com
I found this news interesting:
Seen on VentureBeat (and first on Hacker News).
Typesafe raises $3M for cloud and multi-core software development tools:
Excerpts:
[ Typesafe ... has raised $3 million in a first round of funding. ]
[ The Cambridge, Mass.-based company is also introducing today its open source Typesafe Stack, which integrates ... the Scala programming language, Akka middleware and development tools. Scala ... takes advantage of multicore hardware and cloud computing. Scala is used by some of the world's highest-trafficked web properties such as Foursquare, Twitter and LinkedIn. ]
[ Greylock, the investment firm whose roster includes LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman, made the investment. ]
[ Martin Odersky, chief executive of Typesafe, created the Scala (which stands for scalable language) programming language in 2001 at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne and launched it seven years ago. It runs on top of the Java Virtual Machine and is interoperable with Java. ]
[ Chris Conrad, engineering manager at LinkedIn, says Scala is a powerful programming tool that offers scalability and efficiency ]
[ Alex Payne, former platform lead at Twitter ... said that Scala played a critical role in improving the scalability and reliability of Twitter's backend services ]
Links:
http://www.typesafe.com/
http://www.greylock.com/
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