Though Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dave Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I think the synthesis of everything is that if you play in the platform layer, it is better that you work with application vendors who build on top of your platform and actually go and sell those applications. Those could range from energy trading to agricultural forecasting to financial services. But you need

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Khris Loux, CEO of Echo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Technologically, that is a very different implementation. Is that something you do as well? It is more about crawling the web and finding out who is talking about a particular stock as opposed to more of a real-time communication platform?

Feb. 28 – 163rd 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 163rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 28, 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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How to Sharpen Focus and Own a Market: Imprivata CEO Omar Hussain (Part 2)

Sramana: What did you do after Open Environment Corporation was purchased by Borland? Omar Hussain: I took some time off. When I came back, I took a job with a company called NuMega, which was a company in the testing tools business. It was a company in New Hampshire that built developer tools. I went

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162nd Roundtable Recap: February 21 – Damsels In Distress

Today’s roundtable had a heavy India bias. Suraksha Helicopter Patrol First up, Jay Kulkarni from Dubai, United Arab Emerates, pitched Suraksha Helicopter Patrol, a help line solution for women’s security in Bangalore. Jay wants to have a helicopter service that will charge Rs. 500 ($10) a month and will literally fly to the rescue of

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162nd Roundtable Recording On February 21, 2013

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Khris Loux, CEO of Echo (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Who are your customers? Khris Loux: Major media properties like Disney, ESPN, NBC Universal, or Universal Music. Those types of sites that have rich and deep content, and they have access to resource material. For instance, Universal Music has Lady Gaga and Eminem as musicians that are part of their agreements. They thus

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Though Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dave Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That is a pointer to a lot of entrepreneurs. That is an area that needs work. The other thing that is interesting, specifically in this topic, is that you offer this technology, which is kind of Ferrari-level technology in analytics. Inside organizations, there aren’t trained business analysts who can really take advantage of

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