There is only a total of 180 million registered domains in the world
There is a total of 120 billion web pages in the world
.IO is the most popular top level domain right now in the world
make sure to buy up “CompanyEntity”Suck.com domain as they tend to get a lot of traffic
Similarities comparison
pull out words on website’s about us page and comparing with other website’s about us page
reduce total number of dimensional space to compute similarities – sample space 500,000 word
K-Means as opposed to Cosine similarities is a cheaper approach
still need humans to tag specific data sets
Detecting structure in page
find the tables and row
extract the values within the column, check if is
place
person
address
tag all the rest of the content on the page as the same entity
Approaches
pure machine – inaccurate
pure human – not-scalable
set process to mix of machine and human for optimal configuration
On Distill Networks/Bots blocking
this company utilizes machine learning to detect for bots
currently only 10 of 1000 fortune 1000 companies are using their service
fat tail companies will have the resource and motivation to protect their publicly available data
long tail companies will have neither the resource nor motivation to protect their publicly available data
On enterprise sales
It takes 5 years to pass through the trough of sorrows after the initial hype. Enterprise companies come to trust you after you have been around long enough
Most enterprise companies do not have the capacity to plough through the volume of automated sales leads generated even if they want to. The main bottleneck is their sales team
Enterprise companies are willing to pay really high margins
Sample concepts
BuiltWith.com – used by hedge fund managers to track how well a software has gain traction amongst users based on javascript snippet
On Social networks
Facebook uses collaborative filtering
Most lucrative advertising audience are still North America Whites
African demographic don’t spend much which makes them really bad advertising targets but are really loyal users once acquired
African demographic drive much of the music and culture
To ensure optimize monetization spend as well as server resource, could use Facebook page like condition to filter for more lucrative demographics
Short video is the trend now
SnapChat is considered messaging than video
Instagram is in the space
Tic Tak is in the space
Differentiation is a challenge in this space
iMessage is the largest competitor of Facebook Messenger. The former spans across East and West.
On Venture Capital
Founders might potentially get blocked from selling company by investors past trough of sorrow stage (typically 5 years in)
Founders might want to exit while investors need to get their return multiples (4x minimal)
Investors might seek to replace CEO to bring in a growth/scaling CEO as opposed to a product centric CEO
On Mobile gaming
Each games has a life span of 5-6years
In app purchases is the main driver of revenue
Failure rate is very high
Assuming 4 experimental teams, the operations typically generates one successful mobile game per year.
