anandkulkarni

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   by anandkulkarni 10y ago

   If you're open to remote staffers, you can get this done for $30-$50/hr. PM me if you want referrals.
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   by anandkulkarni 10y ago

   I suspect this is often used as shorthand as a measurement of progress because it's announced publicly and has some (imperfect) correlation to traction across all companies who receive it. If you were to define a new standard milestone
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   by anandkulkarni 10y ago

   I've done this (remote full-time assistant). It's well worth it.
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   by anandkulkarni 10y ago

   Dave McClure laid out a model for playing Moneyball on startups – investing well before product/market fit, when other VCs didn't see value. Today, that's 500 Startups. http://500hats.typepad.com/500blogs&#x2F
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   by anandkulkarni 10y ago

   >> complete absence of progress in proving P != NP We've ruled out a number of techniques and also have shown that any solution must fall into a category avoiding a number of conditions (natural proof, algebrization barrier). Not
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   LeadGenius (YC S11) lands $10M for its sales and marketing platform(vator.tv)

   3 points by anandkulkarni 10y ago|0 comments
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   by anandkulkarni 10y ago

   I love this product. We're big believers in what you guys are building, and the need is real. As someone who once struggled extensively to use AMT, I think the need here is genuine and I'm glad to see someone doing it right.
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   by anandkulkarni 10y ago

   How close is the state of the art here to discovering novel and interesting theorems?
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   by anandkulkarni 10y ago

   LeadGenius | Berkeley, CA | Full Time | ONSITE | leadgenius.com/careers LeadGenius (YC S11) is the operating system for outbound sales, merging data curation and machine learning with crowd computing at massive scale. Our customers ar
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    by anandkulkarni 11y ago

    Ben - fascinating problem, and kudos to your wife for looking at this question. There are analogous programs that have led to successful outcomes here – ie, https://thelastmile.org/ These may have useful learnings. It&#x27
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    by anandkulkarni 11y ago

    Garry is one of the most incredible people we worked with at YC. Thanks, Garry!
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    Highlighting Exceptional Women in Engineering: LeadGenius TechTalks(medium.com)

    2 points by anandkulkarni 11y ago|0 comments
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    Building AI that searches, learns, and sells(blog.leadgenius.com)

    1 points by anandkulkarni 11y ago|0 comments
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    LeadGenius (YC S11) makes sales teams smarter. We're hiring sales execs(leadgenius.com)

    1 points by anandkulkarni 12y ago
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    Roll It – Smartphone Control of Chrome(chrome.com)

    1 points by anandkulkarni 12y ago|0 comments
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    I believe he's referring to Berkeley's Hubert Dreyfus, and perhaps John Searle, who are well-known for their critiques of the prospects for AI.
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Go Garry!
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    www.aytm.com is what you want, based in Berkeley. Tell them Anand sent you!
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Fascinating -- the author uses YC admission as a proxy to evaluate potential as a grad student!
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    Rethinking the PhD application in Computer Science(jeffhuang.com)

    5 points by anandkulkarni 13y ago|1 comments
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Yes, Spielman and Teng showed that the shadow-vertex variation of the simplex method has a smoothed polynomial complexity [1]. It's worth noting that while other LP methods are known to be weakly polynomial, the polynomiality depends
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Not quite: in MobileWorks, work is assigned to private workers, so nothing is public. The same goes for CloudFactory, TaskUs, and the other non-marketplace crowd platforms. You're right that challenge work does a reasonable job of scr
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Worse yet, the tasks are public on the web, and anyone can see what's being posted: there's not even a minimal level of privacy.
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Ha, that would've been sneaky! As it happens, I was pretty insistent that we stay out of the process, and that the experiment run naturally. The reason was that I've seen this kind of thing go awry when the company interferes to
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, there's a gap between what many lean approaches advocate (Adwords), what startups think they need (features/press) and what actually works. The most effective way to learn is to go out and
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Thanks! We actually do mean a contact who is interested and primed. There are two stages: first researching leads, and the second reaching out to them to schedule contacts. The $2000 plan incorporates both pieces.
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Customers requested it, actually, even knowing that it'd use more time. It's more useful at the end of the day anyway -- lead data is often not contact information, but a good body of background information that can be used to det
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    That's useful feedback! It depends on whether your users can convert automatically based on information from an email. It takes some domain expertise to describe potential users, so we prefer to leave that to clients. We might step in
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Thanks for that useful comment -- much appreciated! We might benefit from introducing some specialized vertical pages, and we'll provide some more color on who's doing the research work. The part of the process that's masked
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    by anandkulkarni 13y ago

    Thanks a lot, Mark!