Bootstrapping with Services at the Cusp of AI and FinTech: Vahe Andonians, Founder of Cognaize (Part 1)

In this case study, you will hear Vahe talk a lot about bootstrapping – bootstrapping to exit, bootstrapping with services, so on. You will also learn a nifty way of building domain knowledge on top of horizontal AI expertise. This is a valuable and extremely interesting way of building AI companies for entrepreneurs to consider.

Entrepreneurship in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

There are over six million students enrolled in Machine Learning courses on Udemy. The most daring will try to start their own businesses.

For these learners, we continue to introduce Udemy courses based on the 1Mby1M methodology that will assist budding entrepreneurs in creating a pragmatic strategy.

I believe, strongly, that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial capitalism can be democratized, and wealth can be created in the middle of the pyramid using capitalistic principles. In the next 2-3 decades, the potential for distributed capitalism is very high and the outcome should be extremely positive around the world. That is the mission upon which my current work with One Million by One Million is based.

Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Machine Learning are going to be at the forefront of this immense burst of energy.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Comet ML CEO Gideon Mendels (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Of the millions of people who are pursuing a machine learning career as a citizen data scientist track, data scientist track, or a developer track, in what time frame will that impact industry?

Gideon Mendels: It’s a gradual change. It’s already impacting the industry. When I studied computer science, there weren’t any machine learning courses in the curriculum. You can take one as optional. Today it’s core. Even if they start in a software engineering role, having that knowledge is significant. The impact started five to seven years ago.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a World-Class AI Startup First, Raised Money Later

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Raghu Ravinutala, CEO of Yellow.ai, has built an incredible AI startup from India with a global base of enterprise clients. Fabulous story!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the genesis of Yellow.ai.

Raghu Ravinutala: I’m the Co-Founder and CEO of Yellow.ai. Yellow.ai enables enterprises to drive automation on their customer experiences and employee experience by integrating a whole set of enterprise data and delivering phenomenal experiences that the companies can leverage for sales, marketing, HR, and IT automation.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Comet ML CEO Gideon Mendels (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: There seems to be a very large number of developers who are learning Python and are either practicing or aspiring machine learning engineers. The number is in the millions. What are these people doing?

Gideon Mendels: As in how are they learning?

Sramana Mitra: What is the application? What is the career path? Is the industry active enough to absorb five million ML developers?

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Comet ML CEO Gideon Mendels (Part 3)

Gideon Mendels: If you think about the managers, they’re mostly looking for this visibility. If I use the software engineering analogy, as engineering managers we are able to look at everyone’s pull request, commit history. We have full visibility on who’s working at what. A lot of these managers rely on self-reported progress.

With Comet, we provide them with this full visibility. As a manager, you can see every result of every experiment by every team member. The main goal there is that those managers can support their team members and guide them in understanding what’s working and what’s not working.

Exploring the Trend of AI Startups: Opportunities, Lessons, and White Space

One of the single hottest trends in technology startups is Artificial Intelligence (AI). Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and various other nuances are being constantly applied to problems up and down the alleyways of all industries, from manufacturing, to retail, to education, to drug discovery.

All the methodology building blocks you have been learning through the 1Mby1M entrepreneurship fundamentals courses apply.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Comet ML CEO Gideon Mendels (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Do you go to market as a platform company?

Gideon Mendels: I guess it depends on your definition. The Community Edition plays a big role as individual contributors get excited about it and recognize the value it can bring to them and their team.

Sramana Mitra: I noticed that you are calling it the Community Edition but not an open source product. It is a free product but not open source?