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171st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 171st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, April 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That is interesting. Are there any other major use cases, or are those more or less representative of how you gain accounts? Bob Tennant: There are others on the license side of our business, also in customer experience optimization. There you basically pull together information from a wide variety of repositories, because often

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Jeff Nobbs is the founder and CEO of Extrabux, a highly regarded shopping rewards site. He co-founded Extrabux as a student at the University of Southern California in 2006. Two years later, Extrabux was submitted to the USC business plan competition, where it won first place.

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Future of the Exit, Post CrowdFunding

In April 2013, equity CrowdFunding is not yet legal in America. In the upcoming years, it will become so. This posts reflects on changes we may anticipate once this change occurs.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Could we talk about a few more pain points? Bob Tennant: We do something called e-discovery, where in the process of responding to a government regulatory request or litigation, you are obligated to provide all pertinent information to that request. To do that, you need to find and identify, then analyze, what information

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Cool and Creative Serial Entrepreneurship: 99Designs and DeveloperAuction Co-Founder Matt Mickiewicz (Part 7)

Sramana: What kind of numbers do you have? How many engineers apply to be on your platform? Matt Mickiewicz: We typically have 2,000 to 3,000 engineers apply every month. Of those, we accept the best 150 or so engineers. We take care of the upfront vetting. We look at their intent to switch jobs as

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bob Tennant, CEO of Recommind (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So you built a platform and you let the customers figure out what use case they want to apply it to? Bob Tennant: No. Our experience in the past has been that it is very difficult to sell a platform. It is very hard to do if you are carrying a big company’s

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