Fraka6 Blog on Python, Machine Learning and building R&D Agile great teams

I have finally took some time to look at the details of the announcement of the November 15 2012. http://www.mdeie.gouv.qc.ca/fileadmin/contenu/publications/administratives/strategies/strategie_entrepreneuriat.pdf (page 14 &43)

Canadian Innovation Commercialization Program (CICP) is an attractive program because as it is mentioned in its name, its goal is to help companies start commercialisation of their innovations. The idea is interesting, if your innovation can be beneficial to the Canadian government, they might take the risk to be the first client and will pay for it.

I went to MTL salon BI on November 8th. Here is the my headlines:

• Elie Elia: 45% of people are overloaded with data; need actionable information
• Freddy Midi: BI = old decision support systems; reports shouldn't be the end of the process; it is a flow; The future of BI looks like www.netvibes.com;
• Before graphic was the end but now it is the begining (drill down).
  

Most VC & angels want IP in order to consider investing in your startups.Why: seems a security illusion. If they were really thinking about it, they will ask for industrial secret most of the time. Let me explain:

I have been selected to speak at the next confoo web conference about "Empowering IT with Real Users Analytic"

Here are the 5 best presentations that I saw at startupfestival:

1. Jeff Clavier - Founder and Managing Partner - SoftTech VC Starting by the numbers: (The 3 asses rules slides 14: Team/Product/Market)
2. Your first startup: slide 5 & 21: most startups fail because the founders give up
3. 
   

I was looking for the ideal way to run all my unittests on my appengine projects.

Y Combinator or Techstars success in the states is a fact. Will this model work in Québec?I think it will be but it will be limited due to the fact that it needs to be adapted properly.

I reached my limits of bureaucracy. Enough is enough. My conclusion is that governments programs are destructive to new entrepreneurs. Let's face it, it is simply incompatible, entrepreneurs are looking for efficiency and government can only produce bureaucracy and inefficient process that are killing wealth creation.

I got several time an email about cool visual illusions and enjoyed a lot the one on the fact that our mind doesn't care about letter order, the only important thing is that the first and last letter be in the right place (refer as a Cambridge study). You might have already seen this: