a/v / 05.08.18
The Way to Design: Year One
One year, several countries, dozens of cities, and countless readers/listeners/viewers later: THANK YOU to everyone who's walked The Way to Design with Steve Vassallo!!! It's been an inspiring year.
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Health IQ's mission is to improve the health of the world by celebrating the health conscious through financial rewards.
Netflix [NFLX] is the world’s leading streaming network with over 83M members in 190 countries.
AdRoll is creating the most effective and cost efficient form of marketing for businesses of all sizes since the advent of search marketing.
Bolt Threads is spinning the future of high performance fabrics.
Chegg [CHGG] helps students save time, save money, and get smarter.
Lending Club [LC] is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, making credit affordable and investing more rewarding.
LendingHome combines technology with an experienced team to create a seamless, transparent mortgage process for homebuyers, realtors, and investors.
Localytics' goal is to help customers build stronger relationships with their mobile and web app users through our analytics and marketing platform.
MobileIron [MOBL] provides the secure foundation for companies around the world to transform into mobile-first organizations.
Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
TubeMogul [TUBE] is going to revolutionize video advertising.
Health IQ's mission is to improve the health of the world by celebrating the health conscious through financial rewards.
Rappi is a marketplace for restaurants and supermarkets. Delivering with impressive logistics in under 15 minutes, in emerging markets.
Tubi is the largest connected TV content distribution and monetization platform.
Find the perfect pet sitter near you. With Rover, your pet stays in a sitter’s home or yours, whether you’re traveling or just out for the day.
Ebates (acquired by Rakuten) rewards consumers with cash back on purchases while providing access to thousands of coupons, discounts, and deals.
ForUs is fixing retirement in America, one small company at a time. A financial technology shop that’s expanding Americans’ access to 401K.
Motif is an online trading platform built around you and your insights. Built for the way you see the world.
Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations. Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations.
Pocket (acquired by Mozilla) is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
Autogrid empowers winners of the energy world.
Azure Power’s mission is to be the lowest cost energy producer in the world.
EnerNoc offers technology-enabled energy management solutions for utilities and grid operators that deliver energy.
Sentient Energy designs and builds the MM2 line monitor for use by electric utilities worldwide.
Silver Spring Networks offers Smart Energy Platform™, enabling utilities to improve energy efficiencies, enhance services, and reduce costs.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
Our vision is to make homeownership simpler, safer, and more accessible.
Health IQ's mission is to improve the health of the world by celebrating the health conscious through financial rewards.
CoverWallet is reinventing insurance for small businesses combining deep analytics, thoughtful design and state of the art technology.
Auxmoney allows you to borrow money today. Private investors fund your loan in seconds - you can get money in the next 48 hours.
BlockCypher is a cloud-optimized block chain platform powering crypto-currency applications reliably and at-scale.
ForUs is fixing retirement in America, one small company at a time. A financial technology shop that’s expanding Americans’ access to 401K.
LendingHome combines technology with an experienced team to create a seamless, transparent mortgage process for homebuyers, realtors, and investors.
Lending Club [LC] is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, making credit affordable and investing more rewarding.
Motif is an online trading platform built around you and your insights. Built for the way you see the world.
Ondeck is a technology-enabled financial platform that provides loan financing to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Sunrun [RUN] helps homeowners get solar energy that is perfect for their home and lifestyle, simply and quickly.
We believe that security should be deterministic and that some things are far too valuable to be left to chance.
We are entrepreneurs dedicated to solving hard problems.
Cliqr (acquired by Cisco) provides application defined cloud management. Cliqr makes the cloud all about the application, not the infrastructure.
Coverity (acquired by Synopsys) finds critical defects and security weaknesses in code as it’s written.
Cyphort is transforming malware security to advance your business agility from next generation advanced persistent threats.
ForgeRock develops open source identity management solutions for the enterprise and government organizations.
MobileIron [MOBL] provides the secure foundation for companies around the world to transform into mobile-first organizations.
Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
ZeroStack provides IT resources without IT overhead. We have built a new cloud model that combines public-cloud-like operations with on-premises infra
Find the perfect pet sitter near you. With Rover, your pet stays in a sitter’s home or yours, whether you’re traveling or just out for the day.
2nd Address is an online marketplace for furnished housing. 2nd Address makes money from a user committing to a unit.
Lending Club [LC] is the world’s largest online marketplace connecting borrowers and investors, making credit affordable and investing more rewarding.
Ondeck is a technology-enabled financial platform that provides loan financing to small- and medium-sized businesses.
Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations. Peerspace is an online marketplace for unique and undiscovered locations.
Wevorce offers web-based technology and a community of trained attorneys, counselors, and other experts to help couples divorce amicably.
QuanticMind, the Platform for Smarter Advertising, is the pioneer of predictive advertising management software for paid search and social channels.
AdRoll is creating the most effective and cost efficient form of marketing for businesses of all sizes since the advent of search marketing.
Aggregate Knowledge (acquired by Neustar) offers a customer an exact science to pinpoint where to reach highest performing customers in one platform.
Conviva addresses the changing business of television with a big data platform enabling online video providers to deliver the best viewing experience.
Custora is a predictive marketing platform built for e-commerce teams. Our software analyzes data to predict how customers will behave in the future.
FreeWheel (acquired by Comcast) provides enterprise level solutions to enable the video industry to thrive in an increasingly complex ecosystem.
Only InsideView embeds all three essential elements of actionable market intelligence into your sales and marketing workflow.
Localytics' goal is to help customers build stronger relationships with their mobile and web app users through our analytics and marketing platform.
Responsys (acquired by Oracle) is cloud software and services company helping brands manage their digital relationships across email, mobile and web.
TubeMogul [TUBE] is going to revolutionize video advertising.
Guardian Analytics provides real-time omni-channel fraud prevention solutions to protect online, mobile, wire and ACH channels.
Only InsideView embeds all three essential elements of actionable market intelligence into your sales and marketing workflow.
Localytics' goal is to help customers build stronger relationships with their mobile and web app users through our analytics and marketing platform.
Mode Analytics provides online services for analyzing data.
Moxie is changing the way eCommerce is done by anticipating what customers want, and engaging with them through the entire digital journey.
Phantom is the 1st Purpose-Built, Community-Powered Security Automation & Orchestration Platform.
Pocket (acquired by Mozilla) is an application that allows users to save and retrieve documents and videos from websites.
Skycure is the most compelling and comprehensive protection in enterprise mobile security.
Trufa delivers True Finance Applications, employing big data and predictive analytics to help companies unlock cash.
Visier is a cloud-based analytics platform enabling HR professionals to answer critical workforce strategy questions.
Yozio is a mobile growth engineering company providing an advanced analytics, organic growth marketing platform for mobile marketers.
ZeroStack provides IT resources without IT overhead. We have built a new cloud model that combines public-cloud-like operations with on-premises infra
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The Designer Founder’s Manifesto
To listen to the complete audiobook edition of The Way to Design by Steve Vassallo visit TheWaytoDesign.com. Joe Gebbia, cofounder and chief product officer of AirBnB, calls The Way to Design, "the first practical and inspirational guide for designers who want to create positive change in the world."
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Derek Steer, CEO at Mode Analytics, Chats with Quora
Soft skills don't just make analysts more efficient — they're the bulk of the job. If anything, technical skills are where you gain speed or efficiency.
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Interview: Ashutosh Garg, CEO at Eightfold.ai
I recently caught up with Ashutosh Garg, CEO at Eightfold.ai to discuss how he and his team have deployed AI and machine learning to help with the needs of the talent management industry.
Democratizing AI for all
Artificial Intelligence has enormous potential for improving the world, but its promise will only be realized if the community that creates it grows and diversifies. Joanne leads a conversation on this topic with Dr. Fei-Fei Li, Director of Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab
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Respond Software Named a Gartner 2018 Cool Vendor in Security Operations and Vulnerability Management
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Respond Software, a leader in the emerging field of Autonomous Security, announces its selection as one of industry-analyst Gartner’s Cool Vendors in the Cool Vendors in Security Operations and Vulnerability Management report.
