Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Matti Aksela, VP of Analytics at Comptel (Part 1)

Matti Aksela is the vice president of Analytics at Comptel, a company that recently acquired Xtract, which provides Advanced Analytics solutions powered by Social Intelligence. In this interview Matti talks about the processes involved at Comptel that drive insights from mobile network data and how this affects consumer experience. Sramana Mitra: Matti, let’s start by

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take that case and transfer it to a mobile money transfer scenario. Does it mean that both parties – the sender and the receiver – need to have your app on their mobile phones? Nick LeCuyer: Absolutely not. That has been a core principal of how we designed our digital services, which

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Building a Robust Business with Eugene (Oregon) Angels Investors: Jake Weatherly, CEO of SheerId (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Jake is the co-founder and CEO of SheerID, an online shopping cart platform which provides instant, seamless group verification. For more than 15 years, Jake has focused his career on entrepreneurship and small business growth. He has traveled the world to teach business and marketing planning

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Then there is international money transfer. There are all sorts of mobile payment technologies happening. Could you talk a bit more about these developments, how you process these trends, and what decisions you are taking in the domain of mobile payment?

Internet Advertising Pioneer: Kevin O’Connor, Founder of DoubleClick and FindTheBest (Part 7)

Sramana: We have seen several bubbles in our industry. First the dot com, second Web 2.0, and now the app craze. Investors made very irrational decisions in each of these bubbles. When will they learn? Why don’t people ever learn? Kevin O’Connor: There are probably a couple of reasons why. I am fairly skeptical of

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