Cool Ideas - Talks
- Richard Hamming – You and Your Research (Youtube)
- The Situational Awareness, The Decade Ahead
- Nostalgia; The Original PageRank Paper by Google’s Founders
- Patrick Winston – How To Speak (Youtube)
- John Schulman – Reasoning, RLHF, & Plan for 2027 AGI
- A Great Book by Micheal Nielsen to Understand Neural Networks
- Finding and Editing Facts in an LLM
9. Artificial General Intelligence and Lock-In
10. A Paper from Apple about limitations of LLMs: The Illusion of Thinking
11. What If Everything Goes Right? – Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodei
12. A Gentle Introduction to Data Science
13.High Agency!
14. How to Get Help
Corporate Venture Capital, Case Studies and Research Papers
1- How much is sweat equity worth?
2- Notes on private equity asset allocation
3- Private placement memoranda
6- Notes on private equity deal structure
8- Convertible Debt (Wharton MBA Lecture Notes)
9- How a Venture Capitalist Evaluate a Potential Venture Opportunities
10- Limited Partnership Agreements
11- Investment, Duration, and Exit Strategies for CVC and IVC backed Start-ups
12- Corporate VC Fund Profiles (2013)
13- Apple’s Growth Explained in the Blue Ocean Context
14- Corporate Venturing, Allocation of Talent,
and Competition for Star Managers
15- MIT Paper on CVC from 1991
Everything About Agents
Notes and Papers About Agents
1- Building Effective Agents (A good approach by Anthropic)
2- A Challenging Approach: “Are Emergent Abilities of Large Language Models a Mirage?”
3- A widely accepted approach: Adaptive-RAG: Learning to Adapt Retrieval-Augmented Large Language Models through Question Complexity
Customer Development & Exploration & PMF
Prototyping & Ideation
1 – Figma
2 – Lovable
3 – Emergent
4 – Keynotopia
5 – Miro
6 – Proto.io
9 – Helio (Actionable UX Metrics)
10 – Mockflow (Wireframing made easier)
11 – Moqups (Wireframes, Diagrams and more)
12 – My Personal Technical Blogposts Archive
Growth and Operations
1 – OneSignal (User Communication)
2 – Paddle (Payments Collection)
3 – Intercom (AI Driven Customer Support)
4 – Appsflyer (Analytics for Paid Ads)
5 – Adapty.io (Revenue Management for In-app Purchases)
6 – FunnelFox (Funnels to Convert)
Fundemantal Free AI Courses & Resources
1 – Neural Networks and Deep Learning (An interactive Online Book for Fundemantals)
2- Getting Started with AI on Jetson Nano Developer Kit
3- Building A Brain in 10 Minutes
4- Building Video AI Applications on Jetson Nano
6- Building RAG Agents with LLMs
7- Accelerate Data Science Workflows with Zero Code Changes
8- Introduction to AI in the Data Center
9 – NVIDIA Generative AI Explained
10 – Attention Is All You Need (The Article restarted AI)
12- Toy Models of Superposition
13- A Brief Introduction to Autoencoders
14- Introduction to ML Course Slides of Dr. Toraman
15- Interpretable Machine Learning by Christoph Molnar
16- Explainable AI Cheat Sheet
17- A Literature Review on Applications of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI)
SEQUOIA GUIDES
Interesting Communities
Links Related to Quantum Computing
- 1 - Quantum Computing as of October 2024 - Steve Blank Blogpost
- 2 - Quantum Technology Ecosystem Explained - Steve Blank
- 3 - Shor's Algorithm Explained
- 4 - A Comprehensive Catalog of Quantum Algorithms
- 5 - IBM Quantum SDK (Hello World)
- 6 - IBM Coding With Qiskit - Youtube
- 7 - What is Post-Quantum Cryptography?
- 8 - Post Quantum Cryptogtraphy Program
Links Related to Semiconductors / Hardware
Accelerators - Incubators (The ones I find reasonable)
Funding Related Links
- Disrupt 2024 Investor List
- Will be adding more..
Ethics and Future of Autonomous Cars
About Failed Startups
General Overview and Archives
1- Failory (A Database For Failed Startups)
2- 278 Biggest/Costliest Startup Failures of All Time
3- The Failed Startup I Felt Sorry The Most: General Magic
Ideas/Startups I Worked On
In 2016, when blockchain was hot, I tried to build a platform on which you could exchange a property as easy as a stock. All parties involved in transaction would live on this blockchain based record keeping infrastructure.
When I realize, blockchain idea was too soon and nobody needed it, I pivoted to a subscription based e-commerce startup which won a sponsored Silicon Valley Tour on a pitching event and I visited the Bay Area in 2017 thanks to this startup.
A unified in-store micro loan application and distribution platform for banks and large ticket retailers such as furniture stores, private schools etc. I could not convince a bank to be the loan provider on my platform
A building inspection and large site management software using drones. Image processing and AI would help to detect cracks and drones would save time for project managers and engineers to run a site more efficiently. I quit my job to focus on this project but our government grant did not accepted.
Started a direct-to-consumer furniture manufacturing and distribution business. Scaled it very fast but could not survive the Pandemic.
Tried to launch an Istanbul-based AI powered SaaS product for ready-mix companies in the US. Team did not continue.
An early-stage startup focused on elderly companion robots and virtual assistants. Led market research and competitive analysis, and advised on go-to-market and fundraising strategies.
A project management tool for architects.
An AI assistant launchpad for soloproneurs.
Computer Science Learning Resources
My Personal Watch List
1- Fullfill (Grocery/Automation Reinvented)
2- Will be adding more here..
To-Read list.
1- Introduction to Information Theory
2- Check this out: www.relentless.com