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Aaron Edell

5 Growth Hacks — Startup to Acquisition in 9 months

Here are 5 of the most successful growth hacks we implemented to grow our startup from concept to acquisition in 9 months.

8 min readApr 15, 2020

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5 Growth Hacks — Startup to Acquisition in 9 months

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Aaron Edell

Phoning it in since 2008 - successes and failures working from home

Worked for 6 different companies, wrote 3 patents, published 2 papers, and started (then sold) 1 machine learning startup — all from home.

7 min readApr 6, 2020

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Phoning it in since 2008 - successes and failures working from home

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Aaron Edell
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Machine Box

Face recognition on physical kiosks

There has been a lot in the zeitgeist recently about face recognition, and I think some of the better uses of face recognition are getting…

4 min readAug 14, 2019

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Face recognition on physical kiosks

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Aaron Edell
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The Startup

The next frontier in machine learning is something anyone can master

If I see one more article about Bayesian Forest’s being Random whilst also being Convolutional I’m going to disconnect my cable modem and…

5 min readAug 12, 2019

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The next frontier in machine learning is something anyone can master

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Aaron Edell
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Towards Data Science

Is the market finally ready for mass AI adoption?

Five Aha Moments from VentureBeat Transform

6 min readJul 19, 2019

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Is the market finally ready for mass AI adoption?

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Aaron Edell

Machine Learning is sometimes wrong — how you deal with that is EVERYTHING

Imagine if you were using a calculator to do some just fantastic calculations like π^π , !2, or the old standard 2+2, and every…

6 min readJun 26, 2019

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Machine Learning is sometimes wrong — how you deal with that is EVERYTHING

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Aaron Edell
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Towards Data Science

Use object recognition to make sure your car hasn’t been stolen

What? What a strange title for a blog post. That is like saying “Don’t not use your telephone to avoid not making phone calls”. But I…

5 min readApr 30, 2019

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Use object recognition to make sure your car hasn’t been stolen

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Aaron Edell
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Towards Data Science

Building a private, local photo search app using machine learning

This is it. This is the best goddamn thing I’ve ever done. I don’t normally like to brag but I’m so freak’n proud of myself for this one…

4 min readApr 19, 2019

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Building a private, local photo search app using machine learning

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Aaron Edell
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Towards Data Science

Too many upside down photos? Take 20 minutes and use AI to flip them.

Its great when you’ve spent 2 hours scanning photos only to suddenly notice you’ve scanned some random number of them upside down. Rather…

4 min readMar 29, 2019

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Too many upside down photos? Take 20 minutes and use AI to flip them.

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Aaron Edell
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Machine Box

Make OCR great again

OCR, or Optical Character Recognition, is an awesome tool for turning printed text into digital deliciousness. Existing open source…

5 min readFeb 15, 2019

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Make OCR great again

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Aaron Edell

Aaron Edell

Co-founder Machine Box (exited)| Entrepreneur | Business Development at Amazon | Agile Product Owner | Author | Father | Amateur Programmer | opinions are mine

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