Category: Startups
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Find similar fashion through Cortexica visual search
Last week, I went to a great talk by Alex Semenzato, who works as a Business Development Manager at Cortexica and is founder of FashTech. In his talk, Alex explained about the visual technology as developed by Cortexica. He discussed this technology in the context of fashion products, making the case for how visual search…
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Learning more about constructing business cases at Mobile Academy
I’ve just started attending classes by the Mobile Academy, a great joint initiative by University College London (UCL) and Mobile Monday London. The first class that I attended was run by Ian Merricks, a seasoned investor and Managing Partner at White Horse Capital. It was interesting to hear Ian’s thoughts on the importance of proving…
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Do (Product Review)
I guess we all know how frustrating it can be to have to sit in meetings that just feel like a waste of time or that could have been dealt with in 30 minutes (instead of 3 hours). I know that there are quite a few apps out there which help us to run more productive…
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Electric Objects brings art from the Internet into your living room
I recently found out about Electronic Objects, “a computer made for art”. An Electric Object is effectively a wall-mounted device which comes without a mouse or a keyboard. It promises to bring “art from the Internet into your home”, and I can see that it will do exactly this: Main learning point: Electric Objects have created…
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Sharing my love for Product Hunt
The strap line of Product Hunt is “the best new products, everyday”. Product Hunt is a site dedicated to “sharing new, interesting products” and I found over the last few months that it does exactly what it says on the tin: Main learning point: I’ve rapidly become a fan of Product Hunt, mainly because of…
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