3 x (virtually) broke – and still going – dorian selz
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Slides from talk at Failcon Zurich, 2013TRANSCRIPT
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3 x (virtually) broke – and still going!Failcon.ch
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We’re in good company
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Uni Genève ([email protected])
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Failure started early
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Failure to truly innovate
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Memonic
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Manual Notetaking
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Our solution
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Our fate
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Web Capture – Collaboration – Theming / multitenant – B2B – Data ownership
“We're actually more partial to Memonic than Evernote.”!
Despite our edge…
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Δ!
A too good opportunity to let go
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Challenge: Find the Relevant
90% of all information ever created has been created in the past two years.
Information workers waste 66% of their time (re-)finding.
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Squirro provides a real-time contextual stream: The story behind your data.!
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Our vision: Build the System of Record for
Context Intelligence*.
* A kind of ‘Spotify for Content’
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@dselz [email protected]
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Das Internet wird mündig
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Thank You!
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About Squirro Squirro is the personal digital research app. Broader than feeds and more specific than search, Squirro filters out the noise to give you the content that matters most. Squirro scans multiple sources from Internet channels and social media, private databases and even company internal to find the most relevant information on your topic of interest, then updates it continuously and automatically. The result is a living collection of curated content you can save, synthesize and share. Squirro was developed by passionate internet geeks and entrepreneurs with high ambitions: To simplify the everyday need to find, remember, organize and share important information. They created Squirro following Memonic, the award-winning, online note-taking app and the Swiss search engine local.ch.
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Aggregation & Display
Froentend
Data Source & Refinement
Advertisement Systems
Query
Index
Repository
Import
Claim-Y-Entry Data Source
Geo Localisation
Data Sourcing Spidering
Auctioning
Inventory Mgmt
Billing
Financials
Own Frontends Syndicated Frontends
Various Data Souces (e.g. News)
P+S
Structure: What we wanted
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Structure: What we got
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Based in Zurich, leveraging 72+ years of experience
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Sergey Brin Co-‐Founder & Co-‐President Google, Inc.
Brin Quote
“The No. 1 factor that contributed to our
success over the past seven years is luck.”