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Startups List What’s The Real Deal With AngelList? Editor’s Note: This is a guest post by Mark Suster (@msuster), a 2x entrepreneur, now VC at GRP Partners. Read more about Suster at Bothsidesofthetable There’s lots of discussion out there about a new and much-loved service called AngelList that connects entrepreneurs to angel investors. I was reluctant to write about AngelList because the debate on pros / cons is pretty nuanced. But with some heat flying I felt it worthwhile to give anybody on the sidelines a better understanding of the issues. Bryce Roberts, a person whose opinion and judgment I greatly respect as well as a person I consider of high integrity has gone on record as having “deleted his AngelList account.” Where do I stand on AngelList? 1. I have no reason to delete my account. I’m still assuming these are all pretty high-quality intros but the top end of my funnel is already full of interesting dealflow. 2. AngelList is a great way to market your deal. Just don’t use AngelList as a short-cut for the hard work. 3. 4. 5.

Events | Startup Alliance 10월 24일 테헤란로 런치 클럽에서 미국 넷플릭스 본사에서 엔지니어로 근무중인 전강훈님을 만나보세요 Meetup Subject: 넷플릭스의 진정한 힘: 추천 알고리즘과 Netflix Prize [내용] 2013년 정치 드라마로 공전의 히트를 기록한 ‘House of Card’는 Web Television series 최초로 에미상(Emmy)상을 수상하며, 수 많은 인기 드라마를 거느린 미국 거대 방송국을 위협하고 있는데요. 어떻게 온라인 스트리밍 업체가 비인기 장르인 정치 드라마로 전국적인 히트(한국에서도 열풍이 불었죠)와 TV 업계의 권위적인 상을 수상할 수 있었을까요? 넥플릭스는 ‘나도 잘 모르는 갈대같은 내 마음’을 정확히 파악하여 맞춤형 콘텐츠를 추천해주는 시스템으로 유명한데요. 추천 시스템으로 이제는 직접 콘텐츠를 제작하는 놀라운 발전을 거듭하고 있습니다. -넥플릭스 추천 시스템은 어떻게 발전했고, 나아갈 것인지 -추천 알고리즘을 가능하게 한 넥플릭스의 Open Innovation인 Netflix Prize이 무엇인지에 대해 함께 알아보는 시간을 준비했습니다. [연사] -미국 Netflix 본사의 엔지니어로 활동하고 있는 전강훈님이 강연을 진행할 예정인데요 -지난 10월 22일, ‘넥플릭스의 기업 문화와 엔지니어를 우대하는 개발자 친화적인 환경’에 이은 두 번째 시리즈 강연입니다. 신청하러 가기>

Rete per l'Eccellenza Nazionale - RENA (2) 10 Reasons Why You Have to Quit Your Job This Year This was going to end badly. I would play chess all day in my office with the door locked. My boss would knock on the door and I would put my headphones on and ignore him. People would complain that the software I wrote didn’t work. My boss would say, “where were you yesterday” and I would say, “it was a Jewish holiday” even though there was none and he would say, “well…tell us next time if you leave.” You can’t make money without selling something real. And now it’s too late. 1) The middle class is dead. He said, “look out the windows”. “Not all the news is bad,” he said. And it was. 2) You’ve been replaced. I’m on the board of directors of a temp staffing company with $600 million in revenues. Flush. 3) Corporations don’t like you. “What’s the problem?” When I say a “major news publication” I am talking MAJOR. He said, “no, we want to be about the news. 4) Money is not happiness. Leaving aside the question of “should I take a job at all”, let’s talk about money for a second. WHAT?

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