Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Zohar Bronfman, CEO of Pecan.ai (Part 1)

This is a terrific PaaS company in the making with substantial predictive capabilities.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Pecan.ai.

Zohar Bronfman: I’m from Tel Aviv. Prior to founding Pecan along with my co-founder Noam, I spent most of my days in the academia. I did two PhDs in parallel in supplementary fields. I did one in the field of computational neuroscience, and the other in the field of philosophy.

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Catching Up On Readings: Gartner’s Top Strategic Tech Trends for 2022

This report from Gartner identifies the top strategic technology trends for 2022. These include generative AI, data fabric, distributed enterprise, cloud native platforms, autonomic systems, and decision intelligence. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace: Mort Fertel, CEO of SudShare (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’ve got two nuggets out of your initial story. One is using Indeed to get some of the sell side going. Then really building in virality into the app. On the buy side, laundry services Google keyword search. I take it you were self-funding this company. 

Mort Fertel: Yes.

Sramana Mitra: The business model is a commission on the transaction size?

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Salil and Kiran Pande, Co-Founders of VMock (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is happening in the algorithm? You are processing tons of resumes and training your model to determine what are good ways of representing information. You have a database of skillsets. Your model understands what’s a good way of representing that skillset. When you process resumes, you can figure that out. Is that roughly the algorithm?

Kiran Pande: It’s a lot about writing. It’s helping them communicate better.

Colors: Cliffs II

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Cliffs II

Cliffs II | Sramana Mitra, 2020 | Watercolor | 9  x 12, On Paper

Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace: Mort Fertel, CEO of SudShare (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about on the sell side?

Mort Fertel: It might be interesting to note that the first sudsters – what we call the washers – were my wife and I. That didn’t last long. That’s how we started. The key to the growth of the platform has been the same thing. Create a phenomenal experience for the workers and they will tell their friends and family. It’s been primarily word of mouth.

November 11 – 553rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 553rd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 11, 2021, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/4 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST.

If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and register to pitch or attend here. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

552nd Roundtable Recording on November 4, 2021

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