Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How do you make money? What is Kaggle’s business model? Jeremy Howard: We get paid for running these competitions. Generally, we get paid by organizations that also access this amazing community of data scientists. A lot of people invested a lot of money in data collection and data management, and a lot of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So you provide visibility and diagnostics on where the issue might be? Sasha Gilenson: Yes, and these are related to the changes that happen in the environment and its configuration content. There is a certain angle of diagnostic tools. We bring the angle of the environment, configuration, and changes that happened to the

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Bootstrapping with $120k Credit Card Debt to $7m Revenue: Scott Skinger, CEO of TrainSignal (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Scott Skinger is the founder and CEO of TrainSignal, a Chicago-based company that makes computer training for IT professionals. Founded in 2002, it has grown to exceed $7 million in revenue after being bootstrapped on personal credit cards. Prior to founding TrainSignal, he was the president

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven (Part 1)

Sasha Gilenson is the CEO and co-founder of Evolven, a leading company in IT Operations Analytics. Prior to Evolven, Sasha spent 13 years at Mercury Interactive, participating in the establishing of Mercury’s SaaS and BTO strategy. He studied at the London Business School and has more than 15 years of experience in IT operations. In

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Who are these people? What is their motivation to participate in this contest? Of course, this is all very time consuming. Thousands of people can be doing this on their own time. There must be something going on in the psychology that you have studied and understood. What is that?

India’s Flagship Global Product Story: Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh (Part 7)

Sramana: You are still quite young and you are managing people who are a lot older than you. How does that dynamic play out here? Jaspreet Singh: I have found that I have to constantly evolve. When I got funded I asked a VC how long I should be CEO of the company. He told

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