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I am extremely proud of our team today for launching Kitchenbowl. Less than a year ago, we started with an idea that we wanted to “learn how to cook” and experimented with cook books (too much work), blogs (too fragmented), and recipe portals (poor quality).…

Kitchenbowl is now Available on iOS

November 22, 2014

Today, I spent all day “Hacking with Cloudera on CDH3” at the Cloudera Hackathon understanding people’s location-based activities using Yelp, Foursquare, and Twitter. By analyzing the data algorithmically, I got strikingly similar results to those shown on Going.com, which are based on user-generated and hand-moderated content.…

User-mining: Start at the gym, end up at a bar?

July 27, 2010

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Creating a good brand is one of the hardest tasks of an entrepreneur. Aaron Patzer, CEO of Mint, stated that you should “expect to pay $3 to 15k for a 6-8 letter, single word, English domain name.” In fact, he paid $180,000 in equity for…

Thoughts on Domain Acquisition and Branding using AI

July 15, 2010

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