Been researching face recognition technology lately. Lots of interesting apps. Based on a 2D photo, software can project your face onto a 3D plane and have you look around, make expressions, even talk. Oddcast looks like a leader in the commercial space. They did the Etrade Talking baby commercial and have an app that lets ...
Check out The Anatomy of a Large Scale Social Search Engine, best paper I’ve read since coming to Stanford (co-authored by Sep Kamvar). What if there were a social media 2.0? Something to build on the mass of friend networks and status updates to do something really interesting—beyond just interesting visualizations? Vark does that. It’s ...
Note to self, get funded by someone on the below list. From Business Week: It’s no surprise that most angel investors are successful entrepreneurs. You can see that in the list of names below—Jeff Bezos, Reid Hoffman, Marc Andreessen, to single out a few. But are they as successful in the role of angel investor? ...
Avinash Kaushik began blogging on web analytics in 2006. Wiley called him to turn it into a book, Web Analytics an Hour a Day. He wrote it in 7 weekends working 7am to 9pm. Royalties from the project, ~$90K after 2 years, go to his favorite charities. His second book, Web Analytics 2.0, donated $16K ...
Wrote an article on speed reading a few weeks ago that got picked up on the blog of Steve Yoshida, an MIT Sloan School MBA: Above: Excerpt from Steve Yoshida’s post on speed reading I can’t read Japanese, so I ran Steve’s blog through Microsoft Translator, an online service transforming websites from one language to ...
David Lieb would have been a second year MBA at Booth had he not dropped out to found Bump Technologies—famous for the iPhone app letting people exchange contact information via fist tap. Below: 35 second video on how Bump works Released in March 2009, Bump became the billionth iPhone app downloaded from iTunes. It’s become ...
Did I read this right? Is a VC offering startups $10K plus use of a Menlo Park office, fully-stocked kitchen and even a shower—without taking an equity stake? Above: Info page on Summer Fellowship Program from Lightspeed Venture Partners Lightspeed Venture Partners offers a Summer Fellowship program that surprised me last week. I’d spent the ...
JobNob connects Startups with job seekers open to working for either traditional or alterative pay. In my mind, it’s a huge service to both audiences. Last Thursday, they packed Illusions Supper Club in Palo Alto with an Ivy League Happy Hour where I and fellow Stanford MBAs met some of the hottest new companies coming ...
A couple of weeks ago Keith Ferrazzi expressed shock that only 5 Stanford MBAs at his talk used Twitter. I wasn’t super surprised. Most people don’t think of social media beyond personal sharing. Did a quick post on my thoughts, tweeted Keith my opinion and that was the end of that. Yeah, wrong answer. Ryan ...
Found an article at the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies I wanted to share: Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs. #10: Failing to incorporate early enough #9: Issuing founder shares without vesting #8: Hiring a lawyer not experienced in dealing with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists #7: Failing to make a timely Section 83 (b) election ...