Dave McClure – Science, Technology, Society

Natural language shopping

Posted on May 21, 2013June 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding
David Meyer, gigaom.com

In the development of natural language processing, the semantic web and so on, e-commerce provides a rich breeding ground. Companies such as Amazon and Google always want to find better ways to learn what it is potential customers…

Natural language comparison service Versus IO scores $2.8M in funding http://flip.it/Irpru http://flip.it/C4WL0

NLP Company Versus IO Raises $2.8M (semanticweb.com)
How Facebook Built Natural Language Into Graph Search (slashdot.org)

Vinod Khosla says tech will replace 80% of what docs do

Posted on December 13, 2012April 10, 2013 by timbatchelder

Technology will replace 80% of what doctors do – Fortune Tech
cnn.com

Data-driven healthcare won’t replace physicians entirely, but it will help those receptive to technology perform their jobs better.

By Vinod Khosla

FORTUNE — Healthcare today is often really the “practice of medicine” rather than the…

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Vinod Khosla To Entrepreneurs: Venture Capitalists Are Not Your Friends (forbes.com)
Startup Grind Silicon Valley Hosts Vinod Kholsa (Khosla Ventures) (startupgrind.com)
One doctor’s personal motivation to go from anger to entering the arena of healthcare innovation (medcitynews.com)
Startups are about to blow up the textbook (tech.fortune.cnn.com)
Debra Chrapaty: Here’s Why I Left My Job As Zynga’s CIO To Run A Startup (embargozone.com)

New models for venture firms find both ideas and the money

Posted on August 22, 2012August 23, 2012 by timbatchelder

Knode and other local startups are the focus of new vc approaches that involve less time shuffling papers at a desk, and more time doing ethnographic research on what people actually do.

Some venture firms find both ideas and the money – Boston.com.

Fred Wilson says venture capital funds have gotten too big (technologyreview.com)
Dave McClure is ripping VCs again: They’re f***ing arrogant and stupid a**holes (geekwire.com)
Nearly Half of Innovative U.S. Startups Are Founded by ‘User Entrepreneurs,’ According to Kauffman Foundation Study (kauffman.org)
Y Combinator’s Young Startups Tout Revenue Over Users (go.bloomberg.com)
Foundation with $249M invested with VCs says VC model is “broken” (kauffman.org)
iKnode (programmableweb.com)
Enlight Bio’s Knode Advances Social Network for Pharma (xconomy.com)
Get to Know: Knodes (quotidianventures.com)
The Knodes Fund. It’s an exciting new collaboration… (quotidianventures.com)

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