I am a startup founder with engineering background. I found myself moving more and more to the managerial position as the company grew. One of the biggest worries today for me is how do I make people happy and motivate them to do their best. I have the opportunity to work with extremely talented people but sometimes progress is just not as good as I expect it to be. My personal benchmark is to...
AimBrain is the mobile biometric authentication platform. We help our clients to know if their users really are who they say they are. The platform currently consists of three modalities - behavioural, facial and voice.
Our founding team is highly technical and consists of ex-ARM, European Space Agency and CERN engineers and doctorates working on the most recent machine learning advancements to deliver the best solution for mobile biometric authentication.
Founded in July 2014 and based in London, we are backed by a highly respected London VC and are rapidly expanding our team to deliver multiple projects with the major UK high street banks and security companies.
We are currently hiring for full-stack and machine learning positions to form the founding team which will grow with the company. We are also looking for kick-ass iOS/Android/Web developers on either CONTRACTING or INTERNING basis.
* Ping us at: https://aimbrain.com/joinus :)
* Or drop us a line at: founders [] aimbrain.com
Thanks!
A good business must always solve a customer problem. I was wondering, for B2C type of opportunities, where would one look for complaints? What are the places with the highest complaint-to-noise ratio?One example would be to search Twitter for "I hate when...".Any other ideas?
>With all of that said, is this something you are having trouble with?
Not right now, but I am looking into how to prevent such things happening in the first place
Hi all,I was wondering have you ever been scammed as a freelancer / consultant by not getting paid and what did you do?
Why is the https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/updates 'items' end-point full of item IDs such as "5476201", and similar (created ~700 days ago) that from the first look do not have any recent changes?
I ask this question to people in my life who, by my standards, "made it". It's usually a person who successfully sold his startup, is leading research field expert or otherwise distinguished in his career (e.g. a president of huge corporation).The question is vague for a reason - to not bias the person. I am interested to hear about everything: technical, financial, social, professional, etc....
1) Discipline (e.g. dedicate 1 hour daily towards a single project until you finish it)
2) Leverage. Think about which thing / project will provide you with the most leverage in the long run. (e.g. doing ML course will allow you to achieve so much more with new gained skills than (likely) learning discrete mathematics.)
I personally chose to start a business which allows me to have significantly higher learning rate than otherwise would be possible, which compounds over time to significantly more leverage in long term. Do mind, now I am sacrificing my living standards compared to same-age peers (working in big companies), but life is a marathon, not a sprint :)
Yup, had exactly the same problem myself. What I did was to introduce a ranking score for each project I might want to do and then just do the top one. I constantly add to the list and only remove projects if I do them / have learned they are not going to work / get new information which pushes them down/up in the ranking.
Series of questions I use to evaluate the project: What problem does this solve?; How does the MVP look like?; What is potential monetary upside?; What is potential personal-brand upside?; What are the potential risks?; What is the required time / monetary / etc budget?; Who is this project targeted at most?; Will there be new skills-of-interest learned?; Will this project lead to bigger projects?.
Each question has a 1-5 score slide which I later sum up with custom weights to a "final score" which I then use to rank the projects.
What is the best way (based on experience / research / statistic / etc) of approaching a small (2) / medium (3-5) and large (6<) social groups without making it awkward? What is the best conversation starter? What is a good strategy given some discussion is already in progress? Anything else to think about?
There are many ways you can build your friend circles in London.
Few things I do myself: attend many meetups with relevant topics to my hobbies and career path; occasionally work on my projects in London Hackspace (https://london.hackspace.org.uk) where I meet MANY awesome people :) (p.s. LHS has an open social night, check it out)
Hope this helps to get started!
Share with us what benefits did you get from being featured on the HN front page? (e.g. 10x increase in traffic, 50% increase in signups compared to the baseline, a new strategic deal...). I think it would interesting to see the statistics behind something that majority of submitters seek to experience here.Thanks!
(as a side note, we are working on biometrics not biotech: http://www.lockergnome.com/technobabble/2005/03/17/biotech-o...)
How much would a patent filing (i.e. it would be patent pending) on biometric technology increase valuation for a pre-seed two-person team startup based in London and funded by an accelerator?We have two options: 1) Focus on getting end-users with an app we will be releasing to showcase our tech 2) Focus our time on filing a patentDue to time to the demo day we can realistically focus only on a...
San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Project-SAFE-San-Francisco/
Montreal: http://www.meetup.com/projectsafemtl/
London: http://www.meetup.com/Project-SAFE-London/
Seattle: http://www.meetup.com/Project-SAFE-Seattle/