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by tixocloud 6y ago
It's interesting - how did you identify the expertise gap in the big firms? From their websites, they advertise that they can pretty much do everything under the sun. Also, interesting there's a checkbox for woman-owned-business.
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Thanks for the great insights. As a specialist, do you partner with large firms like Accenture, Deloitte, etc? Or 2nd tier firms? And how formal do these partnerships need to be (ie word of mouth, contract)?
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by tixocloud 6y ago
I can put you in touch with folks at ArchAngels, Codebase, as well as various UK-based VCs if you have more details on your company? Ascension Ventures along with several others hold regular rapid fire sessions for pre-seed funds so can als
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Would this work? https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.imore.com/how-use-externa... Was planning on trying it out myself. Have the same issue as you.
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by tixocloud 6y ago
It depends on the industry you’re in but in most cases, it’s also heavily dependent on building relationships across the organization and understanding the impact of decisions being made. Engineering is just a slice of the company and leade
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Spot on with cold calls/emails but on the contrary, all events are online and it’s easier at times to start conversations. 2020 could also be a good year because while not people are buying, there’s more time to explore and have conver
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Based on my experience, it’s hard if you’ve never done it before but it gets easier when you absorb the learnings. Firstly, it starts with identifying a problem/frustration that your customers will value. You’ll need to be very specifi
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by tixocloud 6y ago
You're spot on with both observations and it has been our experience with the venture circuit. Especially for enterprise accounts, the bar is set significantly higher for what companies are willing to shell out money for. Good high-qua
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Have you considered non-profit or social entrepreneurship? Although you may not plan to start a business, having the same mentality could help you figure how to obtain the resources you need to bring your dream to life.
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Hilarious story as it sounded like the salesperson really followed his/her script quite religiously, which is quite unfortunate. I’d expect account managers to listen more than to talk but in general, most do not.
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by tixocloud 6y ago
I'd recommend joining new graduate programs that let you rotate in different fields so you get a flavour of what different business functions do. I'd also recommend joining a large consultancy where you can get a breadth of variou
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by tixocloud 6y ago
You may also want to check out Watershed Climate which is a startup in the climate change space. Sounds really interesting, decent funding already injected and good way to understand the industry: https://www.watershedclimate.com
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Tyler, it sounds like you're quite passionate about robotics and the potential for addressing wildfire issues. Firstly, nothing wrong with continuing to fund yourself through a regular job while working on your passion. Folks love to g
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Ben, listen to your users and your heart. Competition is great as it validates a space and with a product like yours, there is more than enough room for other players. Best book to read for positioning yourself is Obviously Awesome by April
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Actually retailers are far more sophisticated than you think. Plenty of data brokers work with them to help piece together a larger puzzle. Plenty of startups willing to help them get to the sophistication of Amazon as well. Still early day
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One of the most enlightening blog responses I have ever read and so important because there are so many issues where one that hasn't dived deep into the topic likely will not have uncovered going in. Especially from a technical perspec
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Would love to connect to those engineers in retail :) We're looking at solving data quality issues and would be useful to understand how they are doing it.
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by tixocloud 6y ago
I’ll have to do some research but I can drop you an email once I find some. This was roughly around 80s and 90s. There was a vision to become a first-world nation by 2020.
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by tixocloud 6y ago
There is opportunity to be somewhere in the middle ground that can help lift the wealth of a 3rd world country. In the case of Malaysia, the country focused heavily on manufacturing for foreign entities but was structured as joint ventures
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Working on building a monitoring and log trace stack for machine learning. What’s weird/hard is that we’re looking to deduce the performance of models that do not necessarily have ground truth readily available so it’s tricky to figure
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by tixocloud 6y ago
I’d love to have a chat further. I have some familiarity with what you’re talking about and can see the value of it.
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Ask HN: Anyone working on text classifiers or NLP projects at work?
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by tixocloud 6y ago
I suspect you’re right about trading off between pushing popular music vs tuning for outlier users. Feels like there are too many smart engineers to miss it. Plus you’re building a personalisation system which should be personalising things
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Pretty surprised that the music recommendation results you've been experiencing have been quite poor. Your feedback would have been invaluable in retraining the algorithm to make recommendations that suit your preference. Feels like a
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by tixocloud 6y ago
As a Canadian looking at how the UK government is willing to work with smaller, domestic firms for government services and how much is being spent to help with the startup ecosystem, it's no wonder Canada doesn't really have the s
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Sadly, this story continues to have a modern day version in the form of poor government support for domestic firms. Canadian education and talent is incredible and arguably world class but with greater opportunity in the south, many choose
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by tixocloud 6y ago
It’s very common for tech companies to try and paint a pretty growth picture when it comes to banks but you’re right. There are just so many technology stacks and so many databases across the entire organization that this feels light in ter
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by tixocloud 6y ago
You've just highlighted the key issue with studies, focus groups and marketing research. The population will always be biased - even the responses from the participants are likely to be biased because they are more likely to give a bia
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by tixocloud 6y ago
I would hope that Keivan would be well compensated especially since they directly reached out in the first place. Credit in a Readme portion is the very least that he deserves. Even if the Microsoft team was only lightly influenced, the way
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by tixocloud 6y ago
Interesting. I thought this would already be a solved problem at FAANG.

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