Recommending wine (Home Page)

(Body)  VinoEno, a San Francisco-based startup came to Fabless Labs to get their recommendation engine up and running in just three months and for much less than the cost of hiring a dedicated team. In selecting Fabless Labs, VenoEno knew it needed an experienced partner that could pair well with their Blue Ocean Strategy to find uncontested market space. While recommendation engines aren’t new, VinoEno suspected and Fabless Labs helped them to prove out that the right algorithm paired with great data would find new ways to recommend wine.

Founder Kevin Bersofsky puts it this way, “We needed to be able to create and use data that didn’t exist, which was both exciting and scary. Our partner provided excellent guidance on what information to look for and how use technology resources to get our engine up and running.“ Fabless Labs advised VinoEno on how to implement a Cloud strategy, how to move data efficiently, how many data points would make a mathematical model work, data cleanliness requirements and how to test market the concept.

CEO Piyush Govil summarizes their experience with Vino Eno this way, “In the end, our solution needed to fit their timeline and budget. Time to market and cost can be more important than finding the perfect solution, eventually.”