160th Roundtable Recap: February 7 – Joint Session with Startup Weekend

Today’s roundtable was a joint session with Startup Weekend, Jacksonville, so we got a great glimpse of Florida entrepreneurs. Whata.tv First up, Jose Fermin from Jacksonville, Florida, pitched Whata.tv. Joe is Venezuelan, and misses television content from his country. His research says that he is not the only one. Not only do Venezuelan immigrants to

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of the heuristics you use to make the correlations, what is involved in that? John Plavan: We use machine learning, generic algorithms, network techniques, and basic statistical techniques. It depends on the type of data and how we have quantified it. We use a rotated empirical orthogonal function to define an

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160th Roundtable Recording On February 7, 2013

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bill Simmons, CTO of DataXu (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Basically you work with the online budgets of these companies? There are obviously print, TV, and radio budgets that operate orthogonally from your budget. Those are areas that are still largely manual. Bill Simmons: That is true. SM: What about the big data problem in general? What other areas are you tracking that

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160th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 160th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 7, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India. Click here to join.

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Today’s 160th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 7, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Equity Financing from Customers: Modernizing Medicine CEO Daniel Cane, Boca Raton, Florida (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Daniel is president and CEO of south Florida–based Modernizing Medicine, Inc., a healthcare company that aims to change the way medical information is created, consumed, and used to increase efficiency, lower costs, and improve outcomes. Daniel has a BS from Cornell University where, as an undergraduate,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with John Plavan, CEO of EarthRisk (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s get down to the specifics of what you are selling to these energy traders. John Plavan: We sell subscriptions to a software as a service web-delivered product that enables our clients to identify extreme risks for extreme heat or extreme cold events. They use that information as an input in their energy

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