1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2013: OpsViz, Palo Alto, California

OpsViz provides infrastructure source of truth as a service for technology companies. With its flexible back-end and connectors to commonly used open-source tools, OpsViz ‘snaps in’ the architecture of its customers to ‘collect and clean’ the infrastructure data and analyze it. What sets OpsViz apart is that its founder Gülin Yilmaz managed to validate the

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 2)

Sramana: When you first started the company, how did you get the product into the market? How did you build the product and acquire your first customers? Arvind Agarwalla: I set up the company at the end of 1987. My first colleague was a very good friend of mine and remains a close friend to

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Thursday, October 17 – 192nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 192nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 17, 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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191st Roundtable Recording On October 10, 2013

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Arvind Agarwalla is the founder and CEO of FACT Software. Arvind founded FACT after recognizing that in the mid-1990s computers were primarily sold to automate accounting practices, yet they did not have a standard software package to accomplish the accounting functions. Now FACT has been established

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Catching Up On Readings: A Master Designer on Trech Trends

Designer Hartmut Esslinger, a major player in the creation of the design language that helped Apple change the face of personal computing, talks with Wired about what he expects over the next decade. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Shaun Connolly, VP of Corporate Strategy at Hortonworks (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The other thing that is vertical specific and what lots of companies are working on is the heuristics of these analytics. The applications you get out of the big data analytics depend on what you search for, what heuristics you build your models around, and what kind of learning algorithms are on it.

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Authors as Entrepreneurs: Bella Andre, Hugh Howey, Jasinda Wilder (Part 7)

Sramana: Do you maintain blogs as use those as a strategy for promoting your writing? Bella Andre: I do not blog at all. I don’t think I am very good at it and I would rather spend the time interacting on Facebook. Jasinda Wilder: I don’t blog either. Sramana: Let’s talk about the publishing industry

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