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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Lars Olrik, Group CEO of Verdande, and Jo Kinsella, CEO of Financial Services of Verdande (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Apr 5th 2013

Sramana Mitra: In this use case you are primarily helping to manage the equipment used in drilling. Lars Olrik: Yes. We are using vast volumes of data and we allow that data to be converted into actionable results that mitigate situations that can lead to a catastrophe. SM: That is cool. Let’s have a look

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Patrick Taylor, CEO of Oversight Systems (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Apr 5th 2013

Sramana Mitra: That is very difficult. In one domain you have all the heuristics. But the minute you switch domains, you don’t have that knowledge. Patrick Taylor: That is why I am saying who gets us into those domains is someone else. They are doing the sales function and the heuristics function. I think there

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April 11 – 169th Free Online 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Apr 5th 2013

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 169th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 11, 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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Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Apr 5th 2013

Sramana: Did you start this company right after college? Aydin Mirzaee: No, I actually started working at Nortel. They were a pretty big deal when I graduated in 2006. My first three months at Nortel were amazing. I was learning every day, exploring new things and ideas. After three months I learned everything I needed

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Roundtable Recap: April 4 – Don’t Waste Your Time

Posted on Thursday, Apr 4th 2013

Today’s roundtable has the usual share of people looking for funding with businesses – rather concepts – that are not fundable at this point. Collectiv.ly First up, Satish Viswanatham, from San Francisco, California, pitched Collectiv.ly, a B-to-C social sharing concept that takes the short comings of Pinterest, StumbleUpon, Reddit, etc., and tries to plug them.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Lars Olrik, Group CEO of Verdande, and Jo Kinsella, CEO of Financial Services of Verdande (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Apr 4th 2013

Lars Olrik is the group chief executive officer of Verdande, and Joanne Kinsella is the company’s chief executive officer of financial services. The company specializes in early problem detection and prevention, driving its insights from data applying big data technologies. In this interview, Joanne and Lars talk about the oil & gas, healthcare, and financial

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Patrick Taylor, CEO of Oversight Systems (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Apr 4th 2013

Sramana Mitra: Is this something that companies go out and look for? Is it something that all large MNCs put in place – some sort of fraud monitoring systems? Patrick Taylor: They don’t all have one in place now. SM: So your customers are all large MNCs? PT: Our customers are mostly large Fortune 1000

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168th Roundtable Recording On April 4, 2013

Posted on Thursday, Apr 4th 2013

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

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