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What disruption looks like in 2017

Posted on August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

Earlier this week, Inc. published a list of the 25 most disruptive companies of 2017. It’s a terrific list of startups across a wide range of industries, including aerospace, agriculture, biotech, and autonomy/mobility.

How to Understand your Customers before Launch

Posted on August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

To ensure you’re building something people actually want, you have to understand your customer’s needs before you launch. Here are 4 ways to collect customer feedback before your product is live.

My Advice To Anyone Starting A Business Is To Remember That Someday I Will Crush You

Posted on August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, gives some solid advice for those who want to start a business. Well, there’s no magic involved but the keys to success are quite simple.

Seed Stage Investment Lags Last Year’s Trend, While Series A Picks Up the Slack

Posted on August 18, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

As the economy recovered from the financial crisis, early stage startup funding was slow to bounce back in 2009 but by 2011 had eclipsed its pace before the crash. Since then, it’s been mostly an upward trend overall.

Why the future of deep learning depends on finding good data

Posted on August 14, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

Let’s address a major component of deep learning: data — meaning the images, videos, emails, driving patterns, phrases, objects and so on that are used to train neural networks.

Robot lawyers? Firm invests $2m in AI

Posted on August 14, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

Law firm MinterEllisonRuddWatts has invested $2 million in a joint venture exploring the potential use of artificial intelligence for legal services.

How Machine Learning Is Helping Morgan Stanley Better Understand Client Needs

Posted on August 14, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

The enhanced human advising process — augmented by machine learning — that was recently announced by Morgan Stanley goes well beyond the robo label, and may help to finally kill off the term.

How artificial intelligence conquered democracy

Posted on August 14, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

There has never been a better time to be a politician. But it’s an even better time to be a machine-learning engineer working for a politician.

“Alexa, Understand Me”

Posted on August 14, 2017August 18, 2017 Goat VenturesLeave a comment

Voice-based AI devices aren’t just jukeboxes with attitude. They could become the primary way we interact with our machines.

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