Layoffs at Watson Health Reveal IBM’s Problem with AI. Eliza Strickland. https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-human-os/robotics/artificial-intelligence/layoffs-at-watson-health-reveal-ibms-problem-with-ai . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17393560 . Jun 25, 2018. Jefferies gives IBM Watson a Wall Street reality check. John Mannes. https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/13/jefferies-gives-ibm-watson-a-wall-street-reality-check/ . https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14766793 . Jul 13, 2017. IBM acquired Phytel, Explorys and Truven for their troves of healthcare data and proprietary analytics.
From 2010 to 2015, IBM has spent +$15bn and Watson is still not profitable....
How to Get Startup Ideas Err on the side of having competitors, but make sure that you have a thesis that everyone else is overlooking, e.g. Google wasn’t averse to users leaving google.com ASAP.
The Startup Idea Matrix, ( B2B Edition , B2C Edition ) is a good start for knowing who to google.
Big companies tend to be slow at changing their approach....
Money was a sore point in the Holmes household. Holmes’s grandparents had squandered away their share of the Fleischmann fortune. Richard Fuisz, a family friend, was a flashy successful businessman.
So in a way, Elizabeth didn’t grow up in wealth? This puts a spin on Chapter 01: A Purposeful Life .
Fuisz was offended that Elizabeth never consulted him. Fuisz made his money patenting medical inventions that he anticipated other companies would someday want....
Tracking on the Internet Screenshot from a 2012 study of third-party online tracking. The red boxes show content (at least the visible ones) served by third parties.
When the browser requests a third-party resource embedded on a web page, the snippet below is a subset of the HTTP headers sent by the browser to the third party.
1 2 3 GET http://youtube.com/watch?v=gHStnhGx1P Cookie: id=35c192bcfe0000b1... Referer: http://www....