cold-start
2 free lessons tagged cold-start across Business, AI. Each one is a short sequence of focused steps with narration and a five-question quiz at the end — take them in any order, no signup required.
The chicken-and-egg problem
A marketplace with no buyers has no sellers, and with no sellers has no buyers. Learn how platforms solve the cold-start problem that kills most of them, why the answer is usually to subsidize one side heavily, how pricing in a two-sided market breaks the normal rules of business, and the concrete tactics, from faking one side to going town by town, that actually ignite a network.
Cold start, interest graphs, and why feeds differ
Why a brand new post can reach millions on one platform and nothing on another. Learn the cold-start problem and why collaborative filtering cannot solve it alone, how content embeddings let a system rank an item nobody has touched, the difference between a social graph and an interest graph, and what actually separates YouTube, TikTok, Instagram and Pinterest.