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giampaolo44

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About giampaolo44

Founder of Kjuicer and Green Gap, the first being a startup, the second an advisory firm. Ex fund manager, trader & banker. Love coding in JS, Python & Django.

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    Comment #31367099

    Yes, that's our primary route, but the great majority of potential partners seem to be 3rd and over in our LinkedIn degrees of separation :/ Which is somewhat strange given that we…

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    Comment #31367058

    There's only one AFAIK, but I am not sure they are friendly among each other, unfortunately. Given the size of our market it's not rare that certain segments are not too crowded. P…

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    Comment #31352443

    Well on that side we should have a decent amount of it. These guys overcame the competition of the diagnostic powers of institutions like Yale, Johns Hopkins or Berkeley and are co…

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    Comment #31352402

    Thanks for the wake up call, I suppose. Re targeting angel investors: even when we are talking about a 5M funding round? In continental EU it feels a bit over the powder of angels,…

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    How do you get in touch with VCs in SV or other serious ecosystems?

    The background: I split my 30y career half & half between investment banking and startups. Yet I am located in Italy, an area where VC is in its infancy. After having devoted 7 yea…

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    Comment #28524508

    Cool stuff. I did not push myself that far since I was mostly looking for headers/titles recognition. In that area while the height of the line is on average (meaning everything el…

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    Comment #28500916

    Oh that would be interesting. Can you say more? I tried on a Samsung S7 but I can't seem to do it. Maybe it's a later Android version, last time the S7 was updated it was with v8 o…

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    Comment #28500869

    I've been trying to use it multiple times, but I can't find it effective. I'm sure they just have in mind different needs from the ones I have, because I can tell it's a nice proje…

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    Comment #28500801

    They (Abbyy) in my understanding are a good example of a lazy company, sigh. They find something valuable and extract the most out of the franchise with the minimun effort. A bit l…

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    Comment #28500646

    I agree. Have been experimenting with headers/bold recognition so far, and it's promising.

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    Comment #28328615

    I built a webapp and a startup to do that :D Students report that they learn from 1.5x to twice as fast if they highlight with our tool by themselves, 2x to 3x+ if the content is a…

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    Comment #23192188

    A bit late to the party but it might still be of help: @ruph123 I am a bit like you, and a few years ago -- after 30 or so years coping -- I started building a tool to study and ke…

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    Comment #20296863

    Have been using this app for 10 years, and it's precious open source stuff. It would be rather silly and unfair to let this go.