By Guest Authors Daniel Burrus and John David Mann Anyone who has kids—or who has been around them for any length of time—knows they are attracted to video games like moths to light. You might be tempted to think these young-uns are using their time idly. In reality, they’re pioneering the future of business training
SM: There are two trends that we are discussing in this conversation. One is the real-time trend. The other is the big-data trend. So, I would like to do a thought experiment with you that takes both of those into account and use a social media construct on the use case. Let’s say we are looking
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. John Ramey is the founder and CEO of isocket, a company that offers premium ad inventory solutions. Prior to founding isocket, he was one of the founders of Maven Ventures, which offered direct marketing software for real estate investment. He founded his first company, Lythargic Media,
Sramana Mitra: Who else plays in that space? Whom do you compete with? And are the applications only phone locating applications, or are there other applications you’re seeing emerge in that space? Tasso Roumeliotis: There are other ones. To answer your first question, the biggest competitor, by far, is a company called TCS. They’re the
Sramana Mitra: Absolutely, that makes sense. Who else in the real-time data access and analytics space plays in the ecosystem? Ari Zilka: In the real-time analytics space, there is a lack of clarity as to what tools to use in the market. The vendors have started to paint fences and mark out territories like complex
Sramana: Your pricing model is good because it is adaptable to companies of all sizes. Is it safe to assume that a company starting up with the expectation of ramping to 2 million users in a short time will be able to afford to access your service? Tom Lounibos: Absolutely. I think Amazon’s number one
By guest author Irina Patterson Have you seen this? Entrepreneurs seek funding year after year, only to never get funded. Have you wondered why? It’s simple: Most likely, it is because their business is not fundable. What does this mean? Some businesses will just never be venture fundable, no matter what their entrepreneurs do. The
How can entrepreneurs hijack capitalism back from the speculators? At two upcoming events, Sramana Mitra will be discussing Capitalism 2.0 and ways entrepreneurs and innovators can hijack capitalism back in order to usher in an era of prosperity and stability throughout the world. She hopes you will join her for these lively and interactive events.