Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Once the architecture of the world is much more mature, you are coming in at the heels of a platform as a service trend. So, you basically provide a platform as a service, provide the heuristic layer on top of that, etc. We were talking about business models earlier. You can charge a

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Is The Current Market Full Of Bad Ideas?

Yesterday, Chamath Palihapitiya made a big splash at TechCrunch Disrupt: Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and founder of investment firm The Social+Capital Partnership, said today that the tech world should be “utterly ashamed,” because “we are at an absolute minimum in terms of things that are being started.” Palihapitiya was interviewed onstage at our Disrupt

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 6)

Sramana: When you had just five employees, were you all getting paid? Did you and your co-founder get paid? Jeff Nobbs: My co-founder and I were barely getting paid. We were making minimum wage. We paid everyone else in equity and cash. Their salaries were a little under market, but not drastically. We made up

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How are you going about trying to solve that problem? Are you going at it in a horizontal mode, or are you trying to create verticalized solutions? The interviews that we have been doing in our big data coverage have seen a ton of companies that are working on certain verticals.

Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 5)

Sramana: You said you raised a million dollars of funding. When did you raise that funding? Jeff Nobbs: We raised money every few months for a couple of years. We have not raised money since 2011. Our valuation grew every time we raised money. We have a lot of shareholders now. Looking back, it would

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Catching Up On Readings: Food in the 21st Century

This week’s Sunday New York Times article, “In Silicon Valley’s Kitchen,” examines the mix of high- and low-tech that characterizes the Valley’s involvement in food production and consumption. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I would like you to take off the HP hat and wear more of an industry thought leader hat. Give me some pointers to where you see open problems. Robert Youngjohns: I think the issue of unstructured data is one of the big problems facing the industry. It is really hard science to

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 4)

Sramana: You were chugging along, making some progress, and then you hit an inflection point. What was that inflection point and what led up to that? Jeff Nobbs: The inflection point was the holiday shopping season in 2011. I don’t think there is any one thing that led up to it. We had 20% month

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