Great catch-up meeting with my esteemed peer and entrepreneurial role model @PennySchiffer - Today in ‚stealth mode‘, tomorrow in #siliconvalley, then next stop #worlddominatiom, right?. Way to go! https://t.co/LYuPligkIa
Excited to find out about
- how the startup scene in Switzerland compares to other countries
- how startups typically grow in Switzerland.
4000 startups analyzed 1995-2017 - well done!
@startuptickerCH
Difference between machine learning and AI:
If it is written in Python, it's probably machine learning
If it is written in PowerPoint, it's probably AI
What an investor line up! NEA, Accel, Atomico, Balderton, Point 9, etc + founders of leading marketplaces. Critical marketplace mass and density you won’t find anywhere else.
Gina Domanig @emeraldVC investors need to sell companies as well as buy them; limited IPO market in Europe remains a problem for #VC@ECThinkTank @EuropeanIssuers @FESEBrussels
Interesting: “Ten years from now, all the big private-equity firms will have teams of data scientists that are deployed on buy-side due diligence, sell-side due diligence, and operational improvements,” Charles said Thursday night at Bloomberg’s Private Capital conference.
„This falling cost of experimentation allowed a set of entrepreneurs who would not have been financed in the past to receive early-stage financing — leading to greater democratization of entry into high-tech #entrepreneurship.“
#DataDriven#VC#cloud
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