Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s do another couple of use cases of your technology. Sasha Gilenson: Another use case we have is about proactive prevention of problems. One of the frequent activities in IT and the development of agile methods is change transition – the release of a change into a productive environment. When you have a

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Bootstrapping with $120k Credit Card Debt to $7m Revenue: Scott Skinger, CEO of TrainSignal (Part 3)

Sramana: How did you take your initial courses to market? How did you access customers? Scott Skinger: In 2002 I was building courses. Before I could get a course to market, I ran up close to $120,000 in credit card debt. Sramana: Whoa! What were you doing with $120,000 of credit card debt? Scott Skinger:

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Sasha Gilenson, CEO of Evolven (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Why is this a big data issue? Sasha Gilenson: Because when you look at the IT and the amounts of operational information that IT is creating, generic incubation is just one of the aspects that we started to cover because the space was not addressed by any other solution. If you look at

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March 21 – 166th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 166th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 21, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Ms. Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions.

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Bootstrapping with $120k Credit Card Debt to $7m Revenue: Scott Skinger, CEO of TrainSignal (Part 2)

Sramana: How long did you continue in your certification teaching job? Scott Skinger: I worked at Computer Learning Center until it went out of business in 2001. I was still working as a network administrator. I moved on to work at an independent school as a technical instructor. I started working with more diverse curriculum,

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165th Roundtable Recap: March 14 – Spotlight On ProductNation, India

Today’s roundtable put the spotlight on entrepreneurs from ProductNation, an initiative by iSPIRT– a think-tank focused on transforming India into a hub for new generation software products. As you might know, India is a country firmly positioned on the global IT map, but as a service destination. For years, outsourcing has been the nation’s primary

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165th Roundtable Recording On March 14, 2013

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How do you make money? What is Kaggle’s business model? Jeremy Howard: We get paid for running these competitions. Generally, we get paid by organizations that also access this amazing community of data scientists. A lot of people invested a lot of money in data collection and data management, and a lot of

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