184th Roundtable Recording On August 22, 2013

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Building a Conversion Optimization Company from London: Graham Cooke, CEO of Qubit (Part 3)

Sramana: What was your first minimally viable product? Graham Cooke: There were two things that we wanted to do. In 2010, web analytics was not getting feedback. When you are on a website, why do people do things? We wanted to understand why people did stuff. We wrote a very simple survey system to ask

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Lori Sylvia, EVP of Marketing at RedBend Software (Part 1)

Lori Sylvia is the executive vice president of marketing at RedBend Software. Lori has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and is specialized in mobile, networking and telecommunications, having worked for General Dynamics and in several venture-backed startups like Indus River Networks. In this interview she addresses RedBend’s software management capabilities – provided

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Dr. Saed Syad, Chief Data Scientist at AdTheorent (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: One common experience I find myself having often is that I go to a website that I use to keep track of theaters, for example. Then I buy tickets to a particular show. But there is some sort of a re-targeting algorithm that has picked up that I was interested in this show

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Building a Conversion Optimization Company from London: Graham Cooke, CEO of Qubit (Part 2)

Sramana: Did your work at Google lead you into starting Qubit? Graham Cooke: My last three years at Google were spent working on a product designed to measure how advertisers on Google’s platform were investing their media budgets on different campaigns. If you were a company like Amazon and you spend hundreds of thousands of

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Harvard Business Review: The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them

Harvard Business Review has published Sramana Mitra’s piece The Problems With Incubators, and How to Solve Them. You can read the entire article here.

Healthcare IT: Making Good Progress

The cost of healthcare administration is a hot issue in America. According to the Center for American progress, in the U.S. healthcare system an estimated $361 billion annually goes to cover administrative costs. That number is a 14 percent of total healthcare expenditure nationwide. Improvements in IT are expected to reduce these expenditures dramatically. The

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Thursday, August 29 – 185th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 185th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 29, 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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