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162nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Feb 21st 2013

Today’s 162nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 21, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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How to Sharpen Focus and Own a Market: Imprivata CEO Omar Hussain (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 21st 2013

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Omar Hussain is the president and CEO of Imprivata. Before joining Imprivata, Omar was the founder and CEO of Anchorsilk, an e-commerce software company spun out of Compuware, where he was GM of its Windows Tools and Testing business. Serving in senior executive leadership roles, Omar

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Though Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dave Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 20th 2013

Sramana Mitra: One thing that excites me about big data is the use of learning technologies. Is that part of your equation? Michelle Chambers: Yes, machine learning is part of the equation, and typically people are considering a lot more factors in their analyses. What is exciting about it is not how the data is

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Khris Loux, CEO of Echo (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 20th 2013

Khris Loux is the CEO and co-founder of Echo, the world’s first and largest real-time web platform. Khris has a bachelor of science with a double major in economics and finance and a minor in computer science from Mount Saint Mary’s College in Maryland. In this interview he talks about how the web is transforming

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“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 20th 2013

After this conversation with Anant, I went and talked to Radhika Ghosal, the 15-year-old from New Delhi, who took the MIT Circuits and Electronics course. Sramana: Radhika, how did you find out about edX? Radhika Ghosal: I found out about edX back when it was called MITx. I read about MITx on Hack A Day

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Though Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dave Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics (Part 4)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 19th 2013

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a few interesting use cases of how your customers are using you. You may choose from whichever application area you want. Dave Rich: I will talk about a large credit card processor. They are using our platform to do real-time scoring in a much more cost-effective way. As I mentioned earlier,

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2013: Insane Logic, United Kingdom

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 19th 2013

The educational technology sector, or “edutech,” is seeing both advances in and greater attention to niche markets. The growing integration of technology into people’s daily lives has provided a great opportunity for better learning and developmental apps. One such product comes from Zoe Peden, a co-founder of Insane Logic, a 1M/1M premium member company.

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“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 19th 2013

Sramana: That is absolutely awesome. The state of engineering education in India, outside of IIT, is awful. Anant Agarwal: I really care about creating courses that have the same quality and rigor of on-campus courses. There is a misconceived notion that online courses cannot have the same quality of education. I disagree. We have proven

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