Though Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dave Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you sit from a competitive point of view? Dave Rich: We think there are three major areas of interest where we are typically engaged by a customer. It is either because they already have exposure to the open source community version – they have it in research labs or on their

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: As you work on of figuring out what the best IT strategies are – mobile, social, cloud and big data – can you identify things you would like to do but are not able to because you haven’t been able to find a product or a solution? Maybe you could do it by

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Thursday, Feb. 21 – 162nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 162nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 21, 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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“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 5)

Sramana: Have you heard of a company called Pluralsight? Pluralsight has a similar model. The company is doing about $16 million in revenue. They are a bootstrapped company out of Utah, and they have a crowd source content development model. They do royalty sharing between content creators and Pluralsight when consumer or corporations pay for

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Though Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dave Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics (Part 2)

Michelle Chambers: I would jump in and say that we are positioned as an enterprise analytics platform for a new generation. That means we have a smarter, faster, bigger and easier platform to use. That merely ties back to the convergence that Dave was talking about, which the original founders saw. There was this convergence

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Catching Up On Readings: EverywhereElse Conference

Members and followers of 1M/1M know that a core part of the program’s mission is to help entrepreneurs from any region gain access to the same quality of resources that those in Silicon Valley and New York City enjoy. Entrepreneurs may want to check out the EverywhereElse startup conference. This year’s conference was just held

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If you look around at the startups and vendors who are innovating, which strike you as interesting? Oliver Bussmann: On the social side, there is the integration of social into various business processes. I believe in that the next two years the Facebook or Twitter of the enterprise will be defined. That is

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“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 4)

Sramana: Isn’t there a possibility that a student could convince someone else to take a course for them and essentially defraud the system? Anant Agarwal: Absolutely. The certificates at this point are issued after signing an honor code. The certificates we issue are noted as honor code certificates. We have recently partnered with Pearson, which

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