Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: At the same time, that raised quite a bit of funding in that area. Is that correct? Sasha Gilenson: Yes. Recently Puppet [Labs], an infrastructure as a code company, which automates infrastructure measurement popped up. They just raised $50 million from VMware. There are many other companies in this space. With the increasing pace

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Seth Redmore, VP of Product Management at Lexalytics (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So you are taking the fire hose of Twitter data for Datasift and contextualizing it, and then your clients do whatever they do on top of that. Seth Redmore: Yes. What you do as an enterprise or entrepreneur is get a feed of data sets that is precisely tailored to your requirements and

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Thursday, March 21 – 166th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 166th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 21, 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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Bootstrapping with $120k Credit Card Debt to $7m Revenue: Scott Skinger, CEO of TrainSignal (Part 5)

Sramana: You mentioned that you now have about 55 employees. What are the functional skill sets of your employee groups? Scott Skinger: Over the last two years we have hired a lot of developers. Two years ago we had zero people on our development team, and now we have close to 15. We are a

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Catching Up On Readings: Big, Big Data

This cool Intel infographic shows some of what happens on the Internet in just one minute, in a cycle that repeats 1,440 times a day. Click on the paragraph link for the rest of this week’s posts.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Seth Redmore, VP of Product Management at Lexalytics (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do a few use cases of your partners who are doing interesting applications using your base technology. Seth Redmore: Are you familiar with a company called Bitly? SM: Yes.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You said you started your company in 2007. Given that we are in 2013, obviously this big data trend that we are in the midst of. The IT industry operates in buzzwords, and for whatever reason right now big data is a buzzword. In 2007 that was not the case at all. I

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Bootstrapping with $120k Credit Card Debt to $7m Revenue: Scott Skinger, CEO of TrainSignal (Part 4)

Sramana: Earlier you mentioned that you were making money by up-selling new products to your customer base. Where did your initial set of customers come from? Scott Skinger: My earliest customers came from a variety of sources for a variety of reasons. The organic traffic and pay-per-click traffic both brought in customers. In 2003 our

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