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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Doyon Kim, CEO of Pangalore (Part 1)

Posted on Saturday, Jan 7th 2012

Video games are popular with people of all ages. The popularity of  games like “Farmville” and “Angry Birds” is proof of that. Pangalore, a San Jose, California–based universal social games developing company  launched its Universal Play HTML5 technology in December 2011, further satisfying the public’s desire for more games to play online and making it

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Jan 7th 2012

Sramana Mitra: OK, as a follow-on question – this is a good, visceral example to illustrate what you’re talking about. Why has Twitter not been able to monetize along those same lines? It’s similar to Facebook, but Twitter has not succeeded in leveraging the big data/real time element of their infrastructure, why not? Ari Zilka:

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Helping Publishers Monetize Premium Ad Inventory: isocket CEO John Ramey (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Jan 7th 2012

Sramana: Let’s talk about how you oriented yourself to establish isocket. You had received multiple points of validation. What was your next step? John Ramey: All of this had occurred in Bloomington, Indiana, which was a college town in the middle of nowhere. There is no web community or startup vehicle out there, but I

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Jan. 12: 111th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jan 6th 2012

Entrepreneurs are invited to attend the 111th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable at a special time: Thursday, January 12, 2012, 7:30 p.m. PST/Friday, January 13, 9:00 a.m. IST in India. This is to accommodate entrepreneurs pitching from the Entrepreneurship Cell at IIT Kharagpur’s Global Entrepreneur Summit. You can find more details here and register here. All

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Jan. 19: Sramana Mitra Discussing Capitalism 2.0 At The Wharton Club In Palo Alto, CA

Posted on Friday, Jan 6th 2012

How can entrepreneurs hijack capitalism back from the speculators? Sramana Mitra will be discussing Capitalism 2.0 and ways entrepreneurs and innovators can hijack capitalism back on Thursday, January 19th, at The Wharton Club of Northern California in Palo Alto, California. Please join us for a lively and interactive event. Doors open at 6:00 p.m. You

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tasso Roumeliotis, CEO of Safely (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jan 6th 2012

SM: Interesting. When you look around, what are some location-based killer apps that you’ve seen – not your own apps – that are really impressive, really interesting? TR: For me, I would categorize it as a couple different types of apps. The first apps that I still think have massive appeal and are still used

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jan 6th 2012

Sramana Mitra: I have to say, though, that what you’re describing, even at a big data level, not yet available. Forget big data and real time. Correct? Ari Zilka: That’s where Terracotta comes in. We’re a data management company, and the product’s name is Big Memory. SM: I know, but what I am saying is

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Helping Publishers Monetize Premium Ad Inventory: isocket CEO John Ramey (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Jan 6th 2012

Sramana: You started developing software for real estate during the real estate boom. How did you handle the crash that came shortly afterward? John Ramey: We knew that the real estate market was going to tank coming into 2008 and had decided to start developing software to address the problem of finding and buying premium

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