India’s Flagship Global Product Story: Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh (Part 4)

Sramana: Financing in India has become a little bit easier. One of our 1M/1M companies managed to raise their first million from a VC. We worked with them during the bootstrapped phase. Our advice was to get to the point where they had paying customers. They sell to small businesses, so it’s not like they

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course. Jeremy Howard is president and chief scientist at Kaggle, and sits on the faculty at Singularity University. Previously, he founded FastMail (sold to Opera Software) and Optimal Decisions (sold to ChoicePoint, now called LexisNexis Risk Solutions). Prior to that he worked in management consulting, at

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Oliver Downs, SVP of Data Sciences, Globys (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is your estimate of the visualization side of the equation? What tools and technologies are you using in your work from the visualization tool kits? Oliver Downs: That is a good question and also always a challenge. Making sure that the findings you have are accessible to the type of customer you

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India’s Flagship Global Product Story: Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh (Part 3)

Sramana: How big is endpoint backup and recovery in the commercial space? Jaspreet Singh: It is a $650 million market, according Gartner. It is growing 10% year on year. The largest shareholder is HP, which has $250 million in revenue, but their product is 13 years old and has declining revenue. The market was ripe

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Oliver Downs, SVP of Data Sciences, Globys (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a definition question: How do you define big data? Business analytics has been around for a long time. A lot of what you are doing has been around for a long time in other business analytics formats. How do you define the difference between what is happening in the

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March 14 – 165th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 165th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 14, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/8:30 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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India’s Flagship Global Product Story: Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh (Part 2)

Sramana: How did your journey evolve from Ensim to being a founding member of Druva? Jaspreet Singh: While I was working on some of the open source projects, I met my co-founder, Milind. He was at Veritas and he convinced me to apply at Veritas. He told me that if I passed the criteria, I

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164th Roundtable Recap: March 7 – The Diabetics Epidemic

Today’s roundtable gave us a very interesting view into the diabetes epidemic raging all over the world. Mocherla Healthcare First up, Yeshwanth Nag from Chennai, India, pitched Mocherla Healthcare, an ayurvedic supplement for diabetes patients. Diabetes is almost like an epidemic in India, China, and many others countries. My take of this product is that

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