1M/1M Profile: The TradeStreet

By guest author Punit Gupta Another Milestone: The TradeStreet Posts 10,000 Trades The TradeStreet, a social platform for traders, has been growing fast and attracting a lot of top-notch traders since its inception. Less than four weeks ago, the company released a press release announcing it had effected 5,000 trades. It is excited to report

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Though Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dave Rich, CEO of Revolution Analytics (Part 1)

Dave Rich is the president and chief executive officer of Revolution Analytics, a leading company in open source big data advanced analytics. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Dave has more than 28 years of analytics experience at companies such as as Accenture. In this interview Dave is joined by Michele Chambers, chief strategy

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How much of that are you doing inside SAP today? Oliver Bussmann: We have over 1,200 projects that have been or are being implemented. We were the first HANA customer in 2010, by moving our customer relationship database into the HANA appliance. In this case we have 4,000 people in sales updating customer

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“I Want to Teach Engineering to a Billion”: Anant Agarwal, President of EdX (Part 3)

Sramana: So there is no MIT stamp of any kind on that San Jose State degree? Anant Agarwal: No, not for a blended class like the example I gave with San Jose State. They get a San Jose State degree. Now, if the student took the public MIT course at the same time on edX,

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Oliver Bussmann, CIO of SAP (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I have a question about the different areas of apps. Obviously, there is a great deal of policy management going on in the enterprise. Twenty thousand people on devices using some permutation of 50 different tablet or phone apps. Not everybody gets to see everything. Is that correct? Oliver Bussmann: That is the

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Billy Bosworth, CEO of DataStax (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: In this picture that you have presented, where do you see gaps or problems? These could be smaller problems or niche problems. Where would you point entrepreneurs to look for opportunities to start companies? Where are the open spaces and blue-sky opportunities? Billy Bosworth: I am a little biased based on where I

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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 2)

Sramana: How does the model support the on-campus vision? If your courses are built by universities all over the world with an open source methodology, how do localized campuses leverage that information? Anant Agarwal: The platform is open source. The software is open source. The content is owned by the universities. They are the ones

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