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Kristina Chodorow
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Published in Towards Data Science

·Jan 15, 2019

Markov Ventures

An exploration of generating venture capital firm names using Markov chains — Venture capitalists are not very creative with naming, so I decided to try using a Markov chain to generate some names. (I’m a helper.) First, I tried the fairly vanilla Markov chain described in Towards Data Science. Basically, I take my data set of investor names and turn it into…

Venture Capital

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Markov Ventures — Generating Venture Firms Using Markov Chains
Markov Ventures — Generating Venture Firms Using Markov Chains
Venture Capital

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Dec 5, 2018

Introduction to (Interpersonal) Networking for Programmers

I like to think of the entire process of networking as a scientific experiment. Basically, I come up with a hypothesis (“People will do X if I do Y”), test, and evaluate the results. Then I adjust my hypothesis. This lowers the stress of standing in the corner of a…

Networking

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Networking

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Oct 12, 2018

Business idea: dogs with a 30-year guarantee

There’s a crazy variety of dog breeds there are out there and it’s amazing that people have created them all. However, as my dog gets older, what I’d really like is a dog that would live longer. This is kind of a tricky thing to breed for: by the time…

Dogs

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Business idea: dogs with a 30-year guarantee
Business idea: dogs with a 30-year guarantee
Dogs

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Sep 26, 2018

Like a brick… pile

If you look at the human-made structures that have survived the longest, they basically look like a pile of rocks because it’s hard to knock over a pile of rocks. …

Boxing

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Like a brick… pile
Like a brick… pile
Boxing

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Sep 26, 2018

The Very Hungry Entrepreneur

In the light of the moon, two friends came up with a little idea. On Sunday, they went to a coffeeshop. They founded their company and POP! got their first customer.

Startup

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The Very Hungry Entrepreneur
The Very Hungry Entrepreneur
Startup

3 min read

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Kristina Chodorow

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Engineering Partner at GV. New Yorker.

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