Borna Almasi

Technologist @GeorgianPrtnrs, a Venture Capital firm investing in high growth software companies in US & Canada.

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[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Hey @jonathanstark. Love your content. Here's a question for you:

How would you think about getting paid by clients if you were instead working on $500K-$1M AI projects given:
a) AI is research based (stage-gates to verify performance)
b) the sum is so large

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

@neel_a_mehta @adi_agashe @Parth_Detroja_ just finished section 1 of PM7. Love the content, but for the love of God, please tell me where all those superscript reference numbers are pointing to! I've looked at the bottom, back, end of chapter@ can't find it! 😱🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

[Evan Lewis @evanlewis_]

I’ve often said the fastest growing and most exciting SaaS companies are the most integrated.

Wanted to back my thoughts up with some substance, so here goes!

New thread on one of my top #StartupLessons //

[Tim Urban @waitbutwhy]

INTPs are living their best life right now.

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Remote meetings are top of mind right now. Unfortunately, it's not always easy to get people to participate. Here are some tips for resolving that.

#remote #meetings https://t.co/w22BlOFMw8

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Competition for top talent in ML is fierce. As a start-up, you can't compete with the big guys on salary. So how do you find the right team? Check out these tips from our Director of Talent, Kathryn Christie!

#hiring #datascience #ai https://t.co/G61zt3sWSx

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

How do you find $7.5 billion's worth of customers for AI HARDWARE??

With AI, of course 🤓

#AI #sourcing #sales https://t.co/BIrHTobwPI

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

📈 Georgian's Evan Lewis has put together the cream of the crop guide on improving user retention for your product.

🙌🏼 Packed full of action! Great work

#saas #product #metrics #lean https://t.co/w6ikGXlyog

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Wowza!

"Companies that excel at design grow revenues and shareholder returns at nearly twice the rate of their industry peers."

#design #business #strategy https://t.co/kEA3F34IcF

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Y Combinator has released a 70-page mythbusting guide for entrepreneurs intending to raise their series A round based on their work with more than 170 companies in the last few years.

#startup #fundraising #guide https://t.co/Ell1T5hWr6

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Incredible to see https://t.co/Cf8PLyOF0T, Xanadu and Tractable listed in the CB Insights annual ranking of the 100 most promising AI startups in the world! Proud to be working closely with these teams.

#AI #startups #CBinsights https://t.co/91gtNBfp4I

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

😭 Nothing sucks more than a crappy meeting culture and it's one of the hardest things to change. These 4 tips will give you a head start in addressing common meeting mistakes

#meetings #culture #leadership https://t.co/SHa5CSrp8X

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

🎯 This infographic cuts through the crap by showing you the 2 questions SaaS investors will always ask and how to calculate the SaaS metrics to answer them!

#saas #metrics #startups https://t.co/8wGDcSUA47

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Could this be the thing that you were missing from your decision making? How can it help your startup when being mean and lean makes all the difference?

Georgian's own Chang Liu breaks this fascinating topic down

#optimization #decision #business https://t.co/qsvUGuExza

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Google officially released a search engine for 25 MILLION datasets.

This is HUGE (Literally) if you want to geek around! Let me know if you find anything interesting!

#datascience #data #analysis https://t.co/A8Rpg1pOV5

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Has anyone ever heard of/used nbdev? Thoights?

Its a Python programming environment for "explorative programming"

I thought that's what I always did 😅, apparently I'm limiting myself by using Jupyter notebooks

#python #programming #jupyter https://t.co/eGYewzwWL0

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Here's a great article on my favorite past time, learning.

It is transformative and as it turns out, doing it well might be something you can learn.

Learnception

#psychology #training #mind https://t.co/UuyDuUrRZW

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

Want a sneak peek into where AR/VR tech is headed in the near future? Ctrl Labs CEO breaks it down for you

#ar #vr #augmentedreality #mixedreality #virtualreality https://t.co/Xk6nUmXjLb

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

In part two of Matthew Harris' essay, he discusses how fintech is moving from being a business model to being an ingredient used in other technology businesses.

#fintech #startups #vc #venturecapital https://t.co/UwXYk7shzd

[Borna Almasi @mrBorna]

What do you do if your company culture produces behaviour that hurts the business? How can the average jane ACTUALLY affect the company culture for the better?

HBR has the answers, and I think you'll find the research interesting!

#culture #hr #business https://t.co/H2XVEeudRK