The Top 3 Conversational AI Pitfalls, And How to Avoid Them
If you follow the conversational AI space, you’ve likely read an article or two proclaiming “Chatbots are dead!” If you’ve read my overview of conversational AI, you know that I…
Your Guide to Getting Started With Conversational AI
Now that I’ve covered how to put together an initial conversational AI team, let’s get into the nuts and bolts of developing your first project. I’m assuming at this point…
Download the CEO's Guide to Differential Privacy
Differential privacy is mathematical definition for the privacy loss that results to individuals when their private information is used to create an AI product.
We’re excited to announce the release of Georgian Partners Epsilon v1.0, our machine learning (ML) product that helps bring privacy guarantees to our portfolio companies’...
We reached the end of an era two weeks ago when the news broke about the Facebook / Cambridge Analytica scandal. Prior to that, most...
In a world where the risks and costs associated with privacy are on the rise, differential privacy offers a solution. Simply put, differential privacy is...
There’s a lot of buzz about conversational AI, and with good reason. As human beings, we feel at ease in natural language conversations. Now that...
Have you ever stopped to think about how inefficient business communication can be? I recently had the common but infuriating experience of trying to change...
Messaging and voice-based conversational interfaces can provide enormous value to businesses by creating engaging user experiences that will reach wider audiences, increase loyalty and drive...
Hundreds of millions of people use Facebook Messenger, Kik, WhatsApp and other messaging platforms to communicate with their friends and family every day. Millions more...
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from the Georgian Partners white paper, “Conversational AI: A Market Overview“ Industry predictions for the rise of artificial...
Machine learning has become so ubiquitous that it’s behind many of the technologies we use every day. And yet few people really understand it. That’s...
Cybersecurity doesn’t get top billing in most organizations. Sure, everyone knows that security is a necessity for legal compliance and basic risk management. But all...
The Principles of Conversational Business
Want to achieve personal interactions with your customers at scale? That’s easier said than done. Check out the 9 Principles of Conversational Business for some practical advice on how to do so.
There are many benefits to automating your conversational business applications. These include nearly unlimited scalability with very low marginal costs, consistent interactions, deep personalization, and...
When it comes to security, things usually aren’t as bad as you think. They’re worse. There’s a very good chance that the alert your security...
Although there’s enormous interest (and hype) around chatbots these days, sadly most people’s first taste of using them can be underwhelming. The problem is that...
Over the past few years we’ve seen the rapid adoption of messaging platforms such as WhatsApp and WeChat. Consumers are increasingly using these platforms in...
Very few things are certain in (cyber) security. Having said that, there is one absolute truth: The earlier you address security issues, the less they’re...
I’m hoping that 2017 doesn’t become the year of the chatbot apocalypse. Not an out-of-control-AI-taking-over-the-world variety of apocalypse, but rather an end-of-species event caused by...
Security is a team sport. As Signpost CTO Seth Purcell put it in his recent podcast, “no one component of a system will provide excellence...
This post is about security first, what it is and why it’s important. But before I can explain any of that, let me give you...
On Friday, October 21, a major domain name system (DNS) provider called Dyn was subjected to a large-scale distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. While at this...
A couple of weeks ago, my wife and I made our way over to The Public Theatre in Manhattan. We had gotten a couple of...
The Principles of Security First
Want to use security to help differentiate your business? Check out the 10 Principles of Security First to find out exactly how to do so.
By now you’ve no doubt heard about Uber, the wildly popular app that connects riders with drivers in more than 200 cities around the world....
Today is Data Privacy Day 2015 (#dpd2015), an annual event about “respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust.” Here at Georgian Partners we’ve gotten involved...
So your SaaS B2B business has taken off – congrats! Now how hard is it to keep up with the demand? What happens if an...
Being able to articulate your total addressable market (TAM) to its maximum potential is critically important during fund raising or when seeking an exit. Investors...
In my first post I introduced the concept of six key drivers that can have a profound influence on maximizing SaaS company exit valuations. In...
There’s a point for every business when it becomes time to either exit or seek more capital. In today’s market, if a predictive analytics SaaS...
The demographics of women participating in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) careers shows a major under-representation. While at least half of all university entrants...
One of the biggest challenges in scaling any business is bringing on board new sales talent and getting them ramped up quickly. Unfortunately when it...
The ultimate goal of analytics, whether focused on internal measurement of a business or the delivery of new analytical insights to your customers, is to...