Thought Leaders in Big Data: Martin Smith, SVP, Ad Platforms and General Manager, TruEffect (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What do you see as open problems or white spaces? When you look at your customers, what advice would you give an entrepreneur as to which direction to steer? Martin Smith: There are a lot of solutions in the space that are called point solutions. I see opportunities for people who are able

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The problem with technology companies developing tools for the media, especially for whom you call data journalists, is that they just don’t pay. Stew Langille: I agree. We found that as well. We came from Mint.com. When I was creating data warehouses, I also ran the marketing team. We took a similar approach

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Series A Crunch: How 1M/1M Can Help

If you have the stomach for it, the metal to carry on, the energy to bootstrap to a point where either you CAN get funded, or generate enough revenues and become profitable, we can help.

Bootstrapping to $40 Million: iCIMS CEO Colin Day (Part 3)

Sramana: That aligns exactly with the 1M/1M philosophy. That is what we want people to do – get to customers and revenues as quickly as possible. Our belief is that entrepreneurship equals customers, revenues and profits. Financing is optional. Colin Day: We were forced to go that route. If I had not received that call,

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January 24 – 158th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 158th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 24, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Martin Smith, SVP, Ad Platforms and General Manager, TruEffect (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I would like to talk about a use case that illustrates how customers deploy your big data capabilities. Martin Smith: I can give you a very good example of one of our clients in the retail space. We do a lot of work with Oreck. Oreck has retail, they have multi-channel, and they

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Winners Of The 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013

Congratulations to the 12 winners of the 1M/1M New Year Challenge 2013! They have each been awarded a one-year scholarship to the 1M/1M program. We are looking forward to working with all of you. –RidesApp, Shai Spetgang (Israel) –SITSecure, Purushartha Saini (Mumbai, India) –enMarkit Technologies, Vipin Agarwal (Gurgaon, India) –Penworks, Vrushali Humnabadkar (Pune, India) – 138 –Skillsume, Shashank Shekhar (Erie,

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Series A Crunch: Bootstrapping Works

Just because you have been rejected by VCs doesn’t mean you cannot build a great business. Marc Benioff was rejected by pretty much ALL the VCs he approached. Didn’t stop him from building Salesforce.com into a multi billion dollar enterprise with global impact.