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Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 6)

Posted on Friday, Jun 20th

SM: Let’s say I am wearing a blue shirt which works really well with my skin color. Are you able to figure out that somebody who looks like me likes to wear shirts that are a particular shade of blue? FM: If we have a picture of you we can find at least 25 relevant

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Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 5)

Posted on Thursday, Jun 19th

SM: Let’s say I am wearing a blue shirt which works really well with my skin color. Are you able to figure out that somebody who looks like me likes to wear that shade of blue shirts? FM: If we have a picture of you we can find at least 25 relevant attributes, include what

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Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 4)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 18th

SM: How do you make your recommendation software portable to mass utilization? FM: We have been working on something we call “Business Solutions”. The objective is to provide the recommender as a service for third parties. They can easily get recommendations integrated into their websites by utilizing our hosted platform. This is very cost effective.

Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 3)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 17th

SM: Had you already built an initial version of the software by the time you received your first round of funding? FM: At that point and time we had launched our first version of Recommender as an online service. We separated the Recommender engine from the final product since the very beginning. However, the best

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Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 2)

Posted on Monday, Jun 16th

SM: Did you cash out and make a clean break from Intelligent Software Components? FM: Yes. Part of the deal with Banco Santander was the partial purchase of shareholder equity. I cashed out and took sabbatical leave in September of 2002. In February of 2003 I moved to Oregon.

Towards Personalization: Strands Founder Francisco Martin (Part 1)

Posted on Sunday, Jun 15th

Dr. Francisco Martin, serial entrepreneur and the CEO/Founder of Strands, has found his niche applying AI solutions to various technology problems. At Strands he has developed an intelligent agent which understands and learns your personal tastes via several different methods.

The Expansion and Contraction of “BI”

Posted on Saturday, Apr 26th

By Dave Hatch, Guest Author I have now completed a full year of research at Aberdeen Group (the last 6 months have been the busiest of my career, by far!), and I can truly say that after 20 years as a user and marketer of BI technologies, the past year has taught me more (as

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Deal Radar 2008: Lucidera

Posted on Monday, Mar 3rd

LucidEra, the on-demand business intelligence solution provider was founded in 2005 by Ken Rudin, John Sichi and Tai Tran. We had featured Ken Rudin, the CEO of LucidEra last year in an interview.