Posted by dmreinke on September 23, 2009
One of our StyleHop advisors is very involved with a company that leverages crowdsourcing to create better/faster/more accurate algorithms. It’s really fun to think about how StyleHop could leverage crowdsourcing to accelerate the iteration of our wisdom of crowd fashion forecasting model. ~DR Link to Original Article September 21, 2009, 10:15 am Netflix Awards $1 [...]
Posted by dmreinke on September 10, 2009
From Ad Age: How a Notoriously Closed Culture is Adjusting to Social Media Posted by Katie Hillier on 09.10.09 @ 10:03 AM Buzz over New York’s 2009 Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week is growing and the world’s top designers are taking center stage, introducing their long anticipated collections. This is how the fashion industry has operated for [...]
Posted by dmreinke on September 10, 2009
NEW YORK, Sept. 10 /PRNewswire/ — First Growth Venture Network, a mentoring program for high potential seed and early stage start-up tech companies, today announced the selection of 15 seed and early stage start-up tech companies for its first class, or “Inaugural Vintage.” Rest of Story
Posted by dmreinke on September 10, 2009
Our friends at Crowdcast outline the limits of prediction markets: blog.crowdcast.com
Posted by dmreinke on April 1, 2009
I don’t know Brad Feld but I love his Venture Capital blog, Feld Thoughts. He understands investing in early stage companies is first and foremost a people business. Here is his latest post on Startup Karma: Great Entrepreneurs Believe in Karma I met with an entrepreneur yesterday that I hadn’t seen in a few years. [...]
Posted by dmreinke on March 26, 2009
“Despite being around for 10 years, the personalized product recommendation market is still in its nascency,” says Mr. Grau. Jeffrey Grau is the retail e-commerce analyst at eMarketer. Jeff and I have talked about how social shopping is going to help consumers understand local fashion trends. While social shopping has pretty much been a disaster [...]
Posted by dmreinke on January 27, 2009
In a Guide to Recommender Systems, a blog post written by ReadWriteWeb founder and editor, Richard MacManus, 4 types of recommender systems are identified: Personalized recommendation – recommend things based on the individual’s past behavior Social recommendation – recommend things based on the past behavior of similar users Item recommendation – recommend things based on [...]
Posted by dmreinke on January 20, 2009
Charline Li, co-author of “Groundswell” and a thought leader on social and emerging technologies made some predictions for 2009 that included one for Social Shopping…
Posted by dmreinke on January 15, 2009
Just because you are struggling mightily fundraising doesn’t mean it’s because of the collapse in the financial markets. It could just be your business/idea isn’t that great.
Posted by dmreinke on September 19, 2008
I was at Charles Forman’s talk yesterday at the Web2.0 New York Expo about game mechanics and how they drive engagingness/stickiness. Charles knows what he’s talking about – He’s the founder of iminlikewithyou.com and has been programming games since he was like 5 months old. Drawing on his experience in Korea where gaming is more [...]
