Simulating The Brain: Baynote CEO Jack Jia (Part 7)

SM: What has been your financing history? Did you finance this yourself at the beginning? JJ: I bootstrapped it a little bit. I recruited Rob Bradshaw out of Interwoven to join me. Scott Brave was the other person with me initially, and he came out of Stanford. I did not need a lot of funding

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Deal Radar 2009: Kalypso

Founded in 2004, Kalypso is a management consulting firm that specializes in product innovation. Founders Bill Poston and George Young came together at Deliotte Consulting, where they were partners. The idea for Kalypso was born in a St. Regis hotel room in Houston when Poston and Young were attending the retirement party of a close

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Simulating The Brain: Baynote CEO Jack Jia (Part 6)

SM: How do you get the context? JJ: You have to emulate the brain. If you can emulate sensors and the neocortext, then we can behave just like humans. If you have human input on one hand and human behaviors on the other, then you can interpret human behaviors. You can give people what they

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Deal Radar 2009: uTest, Massachusetts

This blog has covered various aspects of outsourcing in some depth; today we turn to a business model that is at the crossroads of the older outsourcing model and the growing preference for on-demand and SaaS services. uTest uses crowdsourcing for its customers to test their Web, desktop, and mobile applications through a large community

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Simulating The Brain: Baynote CEO Jack Jia (Part 5)

SM: Context is a key element of my Web 3.0 formula. JJ: At the time, I did not know the importance of context. That came later at Stanford. I just knew that it what was in people’s minds. Since I could not get into people’s minds, the closest thing I could do is judge what

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Catching Up On Readings: Hollywood’s Content Crisis

The legendary Robert McKee talks with Sramana about the state of screenwriting. For this and the rest of the week’s posts, click on the full article.

When Brand Is A Figment Of Imagination: “About Jenga” (Part 4)

By Guest Author Leslie Scott [Leslie wraps up her series of excerpts from her book, “About Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game That Became a Household Name.”] Unlike Jenga, not all brands succeed in achieving so close a link between the product being marketed and the image conveyed by a brand mark. Perhaps

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CIO Priorities: Accenture

By Guest Author Narayanan Raman The ‘CIO Priorities’ series attempts to gain insights into one of the most serious, interesting, and challenging questions facing the technology industry, which, as you might have rightly guessed, is “What are the priorities of enterprise CIOs today?” This question is serious given the constrained nature of cash flows, thanks

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