MetaOptimize

Sum­mary

Email me your pitch and how you need help mon­e­tiz­ing data.
If I like your pitch, I’ll give you a free con­sul­ta­tion on data strat­egy (NLP, ML, busi­ness intel­li­gence, etc.)
After­wards, if we both think that I can add value to your busi­ness, we can talk about a longer-term relationship.

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What is data strategy?

Do you know how to mon­e­tize the data you have? How can you improve mon­e­ti­za­tion using other data avail­able to you? How do you trans­form your data into action­able busi­ness intelligence?

I can help you shape your data strat­egy, your long-term plan for how your busi­ness will cap­ture, process, and mon­e­tize data. For exam­ple, data strat­egy can help you in the fol­low­ing circumstances:

• You don’t know who your indi­vid­ual users are or what they want, so you can’t effec­tively tar­get ads.
• You don’t know what user behav­ior on your site to track.
• You don’t know what infor­ma­tion you should start scrap­ing from the web, infor­ma­tion which you could use months or years down the line.

Besides work­ing back­wards from your busi­ness goals and busi­ness assets to a viable data strat­egy, I can also help you with more con­crete chal­lenges in NLP and machine learning:

• How do I improve my search engine so that users don’t miss out on rel­e­vant results?
• How do I add or improve rec­om­men­da­tion, to con­nect users with what they want?
• How do I scale this ML algo­rithm to bil­lions of exam­ples with mil­lions of features?
• How do I improve the accu­racy of this NLP or ML tool?

My name is Joseph Turian, and I head MetaOp­ti­mize LLC. We con­sult on NLP, ML, and data strat­egy. We also run the MetaOp­ti­mize Q&A site, where ML and NLP experts share their knowledge.

• I am a data expert, hold­ing a Ph.D. in nat­ural lan­guage pro­cess­ing and machine learn­ing. I have a decade of expe­ri­ence in these top­ics. I spe­cial­ize in large data sets.
• I’m business-minded, so I focus on busi­ness goals and the most direct path of exe­cu­tion to achieve these goals.
• I am also a tech­nol­ogy gen­er­al­ist who has been hack­ing since age 10 and has pro­grammed com­pet­i­tively at a world-class level.

Ref­er­ences from clients past and present avail­able upon request.

What is the offer?

You send me infor­ma­tion about what you’re doing and why you think I can help you.
Bonus points if you send me your deck, so I can under­stand your entire busi­ness pic­ture. You are ask­ing me to invest valu­able exper­tise and poten­tially IP in your com­pany, so appeal to me as a poten­tial investor.
Demer­its if you send me an NDA pre­ma­turely. Uptight com­pa­nies who think what they are doing isn’t pro­tected by good exe­cu­tion are a turn-off. But if you must be all James Bond about it, I’ll still con­sider you.

If I like what you’re doing and I can bud­get time, we sched­ule a meet­ing (in per­son or over Skype) and I’ll give you a free con­sul­ta­tion on what you’re doing.

If the ini­tial meet­ing goes well, and we both see how I can add value to your busi­ness, we can decide to con­tinue work­ing together. I can con­tinue to help you either:

• Advis­ing you peri­od­i­cally about your data strategy.
• Build­ing you new tools to use in your product.
• Licens­ing to you exist­ing tools I’ve already built.
• Train­ing your smart tech geeks on NLP and ML tech­nol­ogy for you to build in-house.

Com­pen­sa­tion accepted in the form of cash or equity or a mix of both. Pro-bono if you’re an awe­some non-profit.

Why am I doing this?

• More deals is always good.
• I am a social hacker, and enjoy con­nect­ing and shar­ing with other entre­pre­neurs. I want to meet some more excel­lent people.
• I would like to improve my under­stand­ing of wide­spread chal­lenges and pain points in data strat­egy. That way, I can build a prod­uct that is use­ful for many people.
• This is an inter­est­ing social busi­ness experiment.

Who is this offer for?

• Open-source projects look­ing to use NLP + ML to improve their users’ experience.
• Unfunded star­tups with a promis­ing team, prod­uct, and market.
• Funded star­tups.
• Estab­lished companies.

What are you wait­ing for?

Email me your pitch and how you need help mon­e­tiz­ing data.
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