Digital Innovation

17 Mai 2013

Sticky Post By philippe Posted in Digital Innovation, Investments, Start-up Permalink

Mercedes-Benz needs Big Data solutions to be ahead in connected car technologies

Sticky Post By philippe On 2013/05/17

Mercedes-Benz, Bosch and HDI have partnered up with European accelerator network Startupbootcamp to access ideas in the fields of connectivity, mobility and big data.

As part of this partnership, called SBC2go, the partners will provide financial resources, mentors and marketing support to startups selected to participate in the programme.

Dr. Frank Spennemann from Daimler lab and Mercedes-Benz says partnering with Startupbootcamp Berlin will “accelerate our access to innovation and will plug us into an impressive community of alumni, mentors and investors. At the same time we support start-ups in developing business ideas and increase their market value. Due to our global presence we can open doors to new markets.”

So, what is Mercedes-Benz, Bosh and HDI looking for?

E.g. Daimler has a number of initiatives already such as the Car2Go car-sharing service which has over 7,000 vehicles in 18 cities on the road in Europe and North America

They need basic, advanced and realtime data anlytics. How basic traffic data analytics can look like, can already be seen at uber.com

Here are San Francisco’s location networks, showing the probability that a ride starts in one neighborhood and ends in another.

Having this kind of analytics in realtime, car sharing service car2go could offer e.g. dynamic pricing. This would mean an competitve advantge to DriveNow (BMW), flinkster (Deutsche Bahn) and ZebraMobil.

It is great to see that Mercedes-Benz, Bosch and HDI are supporting the Berlin start-up ecosystem. The output of this partnership will be definitely interesting.

Links:

http://www.startupbootcamp.org/blog/the-big-league-startupbootcamp-berlin-partners-up-with-mercedes-benz-hdi-and-bosch-for-sbc2go.html

http://techcrunch.com/2013/04/16/mercedes-benz-bosch-and-hdi-create-new-accelerator-with-startupbootcamp-berlin/

http://blog.uber.com/2012/01/09/uberdata-san-franciscomics/

12 Mrz 2013

Sticky Post By philippe Posted in Digital Innovation, Start-up Permalink

Tim O’Reilly on Humans, Machines and Data at Stanford

Sticky Post By philippe On 2013/03/12

Tim O’Reilly uses examples from Google’s autonomous Vehicle project to highlight the developing changes and interactions in the relationship between humans, machines and data (human-machine symbiosis).

How can it be that during the DARPA Grand Challenge an autonomous car drove 7 miles in 7 hours and 6 years later Google autonomous Vehicle drove 100 000 miles?

Peter Norvig, Chief Scientist, of Google has an explanation: “We don’t have better algorithms. We just have more data.”
The data was the Google street-view vehicle. The data came from humans who drove with the Google street-view cars the roads, equipped with detailed sensors which measured, photographed and collected all the data. The data was stored in the cloud and made available to the Google autonomous Vehicle. This is an example for rethinking human-machine symbiosis.

All this data makes the Google autonomous Vehicle project just possible. It is a fairly hard AI problem to pic a traffic light out of a video stream. It is a trivial AI problem to figure out if it is red or green if you already know it is there.

20 Feb 2013

Sticky Post By philippe Posted in Digital Innovation, Entrepreneur, Investments Permalink

Ben Horowitz Co-Founder of Andreessen Horowitz about his Investment Strategies

Sticky Post By philippe On 2013/02/20

Ben Horowitz revails some of his investment strategies during his lecture at UC Berkeleys College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship.

What Ben Horowitz is looking at investments:

The size of the opportunity – you need to get 30% to 40% of the market to meaningfull and to make money in technology.
The quality of the team – is the team good enough to build a great product that is ten-times better and take the market.
A bad market always beat a good team.

What Ben Horowitz likes to have in his investments:

Megalomaniacs
Outliers
Shifts in technology or markets
Market sectors that are dead – big market, a winner, bad product; this is a opportunity
Entrepreneurs that tilt towards big markets and not a niche
Hard core technical team
Products then teams rather than vice versa

What Ben Horowitz believes to be the biggest challenges for entrepreneurs:

Being both entrepreneur and inventor
Finding product/market fit
Managing their own psychology

Learn how business works directly from groundbreaking entrepreneurs and business leaders. This episode features Ben Horowitz, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a $300 million venture fund aimed at investing in new entrepreneurs, products, and companies in the technology industry. Presented by UC Berkeleys College of Engineering’s Center for Entrepreneurship. Series: Distinguished Innovator Lectures [4/2010] [Business] [Show ID: 17365]

09 Dez 2012

Sticky Post By philippe Posted in Digital Innovation, Entrepreneur Permalink

Many Simple Models over One Complicated Model

Sticky Post By philippe On 2012/12/09

Jurgen Appelo has an interesting theory; when people have invested time and energy in a model (tool, framework, method), people have a tendency to make their models more and more complicated. “Let’s add another dimension.” “Let’s deepen the domains.” “Let’s add some columns or swim lanes.” “Let’s draw an extra diagram.”

The main approach to solve Big Data challenges is to take out the complexity of the data sets.

Complexity itself is anti-methodology. It is against “one size fits all.”
- Tom Petzinger, Interaction of Complexity and Management

This means it makes more sense to use multiple simple models instead of one complicated model. Having a toolkit of methods and frameworks, which each fail in their own way, is a smarter approach than relying on one method or framework to deal with all situations.

Nicolas Spiegelberg – Multi-tenant HBase Solutions at Facebook

Sticky Post By philippe On 2012/06/27

Nicolas Spiegelberg – Multi-tenant HBase Solutions at Facebook from newthinking on Vimeo.

Facebook first started looking for a distributed OLTP database solution in 2010. We ultimately chose HBase as the best solution for a variety of our workloads. Since then, we have rolled out multiple large production systems using HBase. For example, our current Messages infrastructure runs on HBase and handles over 180 billion person-to-person messages per month. This talk will discuss multiple Facebook projects that are running on HBase now, our selection criteria in choosing HBase as a good fit, and the functionality we added to open source to optimize a growing variety of use cases.

More info: berlinbuzzwords.de/sessions/multi-tenant-hbase-solutions-facebook

17 Nov 2011

Sticky Post By philippe Posted in Big Data Companies, Digital Innovation, Entrepreneur Permalink

Leslie Bradshaw: Data Visualization and the Agency of the Future

Sticky Post By philippe On 2011/11/17

Visualizing the Agency of the Future

Visualizing the Agency of the Future from JESS3

As head of JESS3′s strategy and operations for the last five years, COO & co-founder Leslie Bradshaw shares her insights and observations around how data, content and workforce are impacting and leveraging one another.

Leslie posits: Whether you are an agency, brand, educator or public sector organization, these trends will all play a part of how you organize, think and produce.

Originally presented for RefreshDC’s November meetup on 11/16/11.

Mercedes-Benz needs Big Data solutions to be ahead in connected car technologies

Ben Horowitz Co-Founder of Andreessen Horowitz about his Investment Strategies

Many Simple Models over One Complicated Model

Nicolas Spiegelberg – Multi-tenant HBase Solutions at Facebook

Leslie Bradshaw: Data Visualization and the Agency of the Future

Creative Data Agency from Germany

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