Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Matti Aksela, VP of Analytics at Comptel (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are real customers using this product? Matti Aksela: Yes, there are customers using this. One of them is from Bangladesh, and they announced they are going into production right now, for example.

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the upshot of all this? The fact that it is so much more convenient nowadays to do a transaction – you can send money directly from your mobile phone. Has that increased the volume and the frequency at which people make use of the service? Nick LeCuyer: I will talk about

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Building a Robust Business with Eugene (Oregon) Angels Investors: Jake Weatherly, CEO of SheerId (Part 3)

Sramana: When you set out to deliver an eligibility verification service and technology, did you have specific questions that you wanted to frame the capability around? Jake Weatherly: One of the things that we uncovered in the early stages in terms of personally identifiable information, where security is a huge concern, is the need to

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Matti Aksela, VP of Analytics at Comptel (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double click down into that field. I would like to hear three use cases of customers, where you use these kinds of predictive analytics to solve problems or achieve meaningful business goals. Matti Aksela: We can start with one of the most traditional use cases in the mobile operator space – finding

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are some of the other mobile payment innovations that you are monitoring and what are your observations about those? Nick LeCuyer: There is a wide range of innovation going on. Those innovations span different sorts of markets – they span low-end to high-end devices, different classes of financial services, etc. There are

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May 16 – 174th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 174th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 16, 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 Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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Building a Robust Business with Eugene (Oregon) Angels Investors: Jake Weatherly, CEO of SheerId (Part 2)

Sramana: What years were you at WebEx? Jake Weatherly: I was there from 2005 to 2006. I was there when the company was preparing for an acquisition. It was a fantastic experience and I was fortunate enough to be there during the acquisition. I stayed there for a quarter after the acquisition before I was

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Roundtable Recap: May 9 – Promising Portfolio From India

Today’s roundtable comprised entirely of Indian entrepreneurs. Avaz First, Ajit Narayanan from Chennai, India, pitched Avaz, an iPad app for autistic children. Ajit is a 1M/1M premium member, and has been working with us on his strategy to not only increase the revenues from his products in the special needs education category, but also to

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