AndriusSutas

AimBrain | London, UK | Engineering | FULL-TIME (ONSITE), INTERNS (prefer onsite, but OK REMOTE)

AimBrain is the mobile biometric authentication platform. We help our clients to know if their users really are who they say they are. The platform currently consists of three modalities - behavioural, facial and voice.

Our founding team is highly technical and consists of ex-ARM, European Space Agency and CERN engineers and doctorates working on the most recent machine learning advancements to deliver the best solution for mobile biometric authentication.

Founded in July 2014 and based in London, we are backed by a highly respected London VC and are rapidly expanding our team to deliver multiple projects with the major UK high street banks and security companies.

We are currently hiring for full-stack and machine learning positions to form the founding team which will grow with the company. We are also looking for kick-ass iOS/Android/Web developers on either CONTRACTING or INTERNING basis.

* Ping us at: https://aimbrain.com/joinus :)

* Or drop us a line at: founders [] aimbrain.com

Thanks!

Thanks for sharing. How are you currently trying to spread the word? Can you share an example?

Actually a great idea, thanks! Any examples of top off your head?

Good idea. This gave me another one: one could also look at app store ratings!

Other option: http://realproblemhunt.com/

Thanks for sharing!

With all of that said, is this something you are having trouble with?

Not right now, but I am looking into how to prevent such things happening in the first place

That's awesome! What kind of work did you have to do? What did you enjoy what not?

Nothing specific. Anything that has mechanical design, electronics or software development. I think research topics should be left to the academics themselves. I am interested in supporting infrastructure / software / hardware.

Any experience on the side of cost? What is considered as cheap in academia?

Whoa, thanks!

Two things:

1) Discipline (e.g. dedicate 1 hour daily towards a single project until you finish it)

2) Leverage. Think about which thing / project will provide you with the most leverage in the long run. (e.g. doing ML course will allow you to achieve so much more with new gained skills than (likely) learning discrete mathematics.)

I personally chose to start a business which allows me to have significantly higher learning rate than otherwise would be possible, which compounds over time to significantly more leverage in long term. Do mind, now I am sacrificing my living standards compared to same-age peers (working in big companies), but life is a marathon, not a sprint :)

The problem I have is something akin to paralysis of choice

Yup, had exactly the same problem myself. What I did was to introduce a ranking score for each project I might want to do and then just do the top one. I constantly add to the list and only remove projects if I do them / have learned they are not going to work / get new information which pushes them down/up in the ranking.

Series of questions I use to evaluate the project: What problem does this solve?; How does the MVP look like?; What is potential monetary upside?; What is potential personal-brand upside?; What are the potential risks?; What is the required time / monetary / etc budget?; Who is this project targeted at most?; Will there be new skills-of-interest learned?; Will this project lead to bigger projects?.

Each question has a 1-5 score slide which I later sum up with custom weights to a "final score" which I then use to rank the projects.

Interesting! I know many people who view HN as a path towards viral. Any specific examples from your experience?

Hey! I have a very similar story to yours, Scotland Edinburgh, same age, moved 6 months ago to London, software dev working in a startup :)

There are many ways you can build your friend circles in London.

Few things I do myself: attend many meetups with relevant topics to my hobbies and career path; occasionally work on my projects in London Hackspace (https://london.hackspace.org.uk) where I meet MANY awesome people :) (p.s. LHS has an open social night, check it out)

Hope this helps to get started!

They did. Consulting is only advisory and includes patent research. Anything else and we would need to pay.

UK also has provisional ones. That is exactly our strategy if we were to decide to file one, thanks!

(as a side note, we are working on biometrics not biotech: http://www.lockergnome.com/technobabble/2005/03/17/biotech-o...)

Thanks for the input!

Cute! Have you looked into using VPNs?

Local Project SAFE (http://www.maidsafe.net) meetup groups:

San Francisco: http://www.meetup.com/Project-SAFE-San-Francisco/

Montreal: http://www.meetup.com/projectsafemtl/

London: http://www.meetup.com/Project-SAFE-London/

Seattle: http://www.meetup.com/Project-SAFE-Seattle/

Sydney: http://www.meetup.com/Sydney-Project-SAFE/

Berlin: http://www.meetup.com/SafePod-0x0-Berlin/

URL: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idenux.inv...

Completely agree with your observations re. 1st and 2nd problems!

I should have provided a little bit more context: the accelerator is pre-seed and it takes individuals, as opposed to teams, straight from university and mostly even pre-idea. The accelerator itself facilitates team building, idea generation and then provides courses on customer dev / etc. as company progresses.

The accelerator invests in highly technical people and ideas, not companies or teams. The track record so far indicates that the thesis of "awesome people will build awesome things given the right environment" is working.

Yes, you should.

The positives (e.g. learning something new, getting feedback, improving, etc) far outweigh negatives (the worst that can happen is that no one will care).

I however feel that for every program I develop I find that my previous programs lack in quality

You're not alone, it's normal. No one likes being judged, but it's one of the main ways of improving and should be embraced.

On the topic: http://startupmanagement.org/2014/12/27/the-blockchain-is-th...