Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rick Kieser, CEO of Ascribe (Part 1)

Rick Kieser is the chief executive officer of Ascribe, a company that provides a comment management platform to drive meaningful insights from customer comments and in doing so processes more than 300 million customer comments per year. Rick has more than 20 years of operating, management consulting, and venture capital experience. In this interview he

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Thursday, October 3 – 190th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 190th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 3, 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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189th Roundtable Recording On September 26, 2013

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Built to Enjoy: Aptify CEO Amith Nagarajan (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Amith Nagarajan co-founded Aptify in 1993. Aptify provides association and membership management software and solutions globally. Prior to founding Aptify, Amith worked in the R&D laboratories at Hewlett-Packard in Palo Alto, California. He graduated from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, California, with a

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Catching Up On Readings: Money, News and the 21st Century

Mathew Ingram’s recent post on paidContent argues that to expect hard news to be profitable overlooks a long history of subsidized journalism. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Yves de Montcheuil, CMO of Talend (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about the genesis of the company – how it was built, and a bit of the story of how this company has come about. Yves de Montcheuil: Talend was founded in 2006. The true founders of Talend are Bertrand Diard and Fabrice Bonan. They were working together for a

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Building a Fat Startup: From Israel to Silicon Valley, Qwilt CEO Alon Maor’s Journey (Part 7)

Sramana: Let’s talk about strategic partnerships. What kinds of deals do you look for? Alon Maor: This is an interesting point you are bringing up. A startup should always consider strategic partnerships because it is very difficult to know what the best channels into the market are. Strategic partners can help you get into the

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Yves de Montcheuil, CMO of Talend (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about what you are seeing from an industry point of view. What is happening in the industry, and where is it going from where you sit? Yves de Montcheuil: We are seeing the desire to get value from more and more data. What is now called big data is nothing new.

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