Pre-Seed Money via Crowdfunding: A Conversation with PleaseFund.Us’ James Bailey

James Bailey completed his economics degree at Durham University in 2005 and started working in a technical role at data marketing specialist Dunnhumby on the campaigns team. After leaving Dunnhumby, James worked full time on a large property development in Morocco. He approached Tarkan Ahmet with the goal to create the UK’s best crowdfunding platform

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Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 6)

Sramana: What are you doing to be a game changer in this space? Lon Otremba: We are introducing the idea of how brands can live in our environment in ways which are appealing beyond games. We could introduce a major brand like American Express into our environment through a payment mechanism or through a virtual

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November 29 – 150th Free 1M/1M Roundtable Mentoring Session

We are holding our 150th 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, November 29! It is hard to believe we have been running FREE mentoring sessions for entrepreneurs since 2008. To celebrate, we will be holding a regular working roundtable session with five 1M/1M members. Building a scalable mentoring platform that can effectively work with entrepreneurs all over

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2012: Mansa Systems, San Francisco, California

Mansa Systems, a San Francisco–based provider of cloud, mobile and social enterprise solutions, was founded on one entrepreneur’s passion to build a great IT company. The company, which describes itself as a “boutique consulting partner with a global presence,” not only provides the IT services of a larger company but specializes in providing enterprise-level apps

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Transitioning from a Developer to a Distributor of Mobile Games: Lon Otremba, CEO of Tylted (Part 5)

Sramana: When you market to your audience, do you have to do revenue sharing? Lon Otremba: If we are marketing we do not have to do revenue sharing because we are acquiring users directly. If AOL decides that they want to feature our games in their environment simply because our games monetize well, then we

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Catching Up On Readings: Deep Learning

As background to our new series on big data and machine learning, which will be published later this week, readers may want to check out this VentureBeat article on “deep learning,” a field still in the early stages of development even though products like Google Street View incorporate it. Click on the paragraph link for

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How did you convince your first couple of customers to go with you? Omer Artun: They were people whom I helped as a consultant. Once I built up trust with them, I told them I could do what this other vendor was doing for them much cheaper and better. That is how I

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What e-commerce systems do they work with? Omer Artun: This doesn’t matter to us. It is a rest API.  Any e-commerce system can pull the data out of it. If you think about the day in a life of a marketer, we are trying to do other things than just starting up recommendations

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