Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jim Swift, CEO of Cortera (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double click down into this particular use case. What happens? You take the customer database of this logistics provider, and you do a characterization of each of their leads and then you do clustering? Jim Swift: We have as much data on companies as anyone I have ever seen, if not more.

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Building a SMS API Company from London: Nexmo CEO Tony Jamous (Part 3)

Sramana: First customers are critical to an entrepreneurs success. How did you find your first customers and sell to them? How did you know that you really understood their problem well enough to get them to wire you €5,000? Tony Jamous: In our case our market is a commodity marketplace. The commodity I was selling,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jim Swift, CEO of Cortera (Part 1)

Jim Swift is the chief executive officer of Cortera, a company that provides B2B solutions such as purchase behavior data and business monitoring solutions. Jim studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and has many years of experience in database marketing. In this interview, Jim talks in detail about how Cortera provides companies with useful

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March 28 – 167th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 167th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 28, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/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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Building a SMS API Company from London: Nexmo CEO Tony Jamous (Part 2)

Sramana: What came next for you? Tony Jamous: My dream has always been to be an entrepreneur. I thought that getting an MBA would put me on a better path. That was completely wrong, obviously, but I left the company and went to IMB, which is one of the top MBA programs in Europe. I spent

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166th Roundtable Recap: March 21 – Differentiation Is Key

Today’s roundtable had three long pitches and a few additional short discussions on elevator pitches by entrepreneurs. CourseGarage.com First up, Shikha Chaudhry from Ghaziabad, India, pitched CourseGarage.com. She proposes to offer a set of courses to teenagers with the purpose of familiarizing them with what various career paths entail. For example, what does it mean

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166th Roundtable Recording On March 21, 2013

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Innovations in Financial Technology: Wisdom of the Crowd

It is of particular interest to me when an established industry begins to innovate and move in new directions. Financial technology has been an active area of innovation all along, but the advent of social media and crowd sourcing has infused new life to the sector. Aside from crowdfunding, here at 1M/1M we are also

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