155th Roundtable Recording On January 3, 2013

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Franz Aman, Chief Marketing Officer, Silicon Graphics (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So, you are avoiding that problem by blowing out the main memory available and then doing the in-memory computing on top of that? Franz Aman: Correct. Then it is native. It is just available, and your application will just run. We recently did a project with a researcher from the University of Illinois

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Leading Michigan’s Emergence as a Tech Startup Hub: Billhighway CEO Vince Thomas (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Vince Thomas is the founder and CEO of Billhighway, a provider of cloud-based financial management solutions tailor-made for nonprofit, donor, and member-based organizations. He developed Billhighway in college as a way to help manage finances among college roommates and in the years since the company has

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Franz Aman, Chief Marketing Officer, Silicon Graphics (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You talked about in-memory databases and said you were using Oracle’s in-memory database technology. Could you talk a bit about trends in in-memory databases, because it looks like SAP is setting its entire company on HANA?

Bootstrapping to $35M via Affiliate Fees: Swagbucks Co-founder Scott Dudelson (Part 7)

Sramana: What is the most popular reward type? Scott Dudelson: Without a doubt it is the Amazon gift card. Gift cards in general are popular. Sramana: If you were able to give advice to another entrepreneur, what advice would you pass on? What were some of your biggest lessons learned? Scott Dudelson: We pivoted twice

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Franz Aman, Chief Marketing Officer, Silicon Graphics (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I would like to talk in more detail about some of the customers and problems you discussed. You can pick whichever your favorites are. Let’s do three or four use cases. I would like to dive into the depths of what problems you are solving and how you are solving them. What role

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