Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: That brings me to my next question. What kinds of use cases were your founders seeing? Let’s get into some of those use cases where you as a company bring special value. Billy Bosworth: I will give you one which is a pure Cassandra use case. This was a very early customer, Netflix.

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Using QR Codes for Sweepstakes Entry: Easy for Marketers, but Hard for Consumers!

Momares, a 1M/1M Premium member, is a mobile marketing company that helps brands and agencies reach their customers via mobile phone to increase participation in sweepstakes and contests to engage customers and drive sales. It does this by providing an online mobile sweepstakes management and text (SMS) marketing platform along with mobile sweepstakes marketing planning

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else you would like to discuss? John Plavan: The main thing I want to address is that we are not a big data company, but we benefit from big data processes. This kind of [technology] has a huge economic and human benefit that comes from being able to quantify relationships

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Equity Financing from Customers: Modernizing Medicine CEO Daniel Cane, Boca Raton, Florida (Part 3)

Sramana: In our incubation program, we teach people to get customer validation as soon as possible. It must be done before you even think about investors. Daniel Cane: It is wonderful that you have formalized that concept into a methodology that can be taught. You can only achieve scale through formalized process. When I talk

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 1)

Billy Bosworth is the CEO of DataStax, a big data company based in San Mateo, California. It provides a scalable, flexible big data platform built on Apache Cassandra. DataStax has more than 250 customers, including startups and several Fortune 100 companies. Billy got a degree in computer science from the University of Louisville and counts

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Could you take us through a couple of use cases of how your customers use your product? John Plavan: The easiest one to explain is last winter, because it was such an extremely warm one. I think it was the warmest winter on record in the U.S.* Going into the winter, around  October,

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February 14 – 161st 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 161st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 14, 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 Ms. Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions.

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Equity Financing from Customers: Modernizing Medicine CEO Daniel Cane, Boca Raton, Florida (Part 2)

Sramana: Let’s touch on a few highlights of the Blackboard story. You started building pages for professors, and then other universities started contacting you. Did you finish college or did you drop out to do this? Daniel Cane: I didn’t drop out; I finished by the skin of my teeth! I graduated from Cornell with

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