India’s Flagship Global Product Story: Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh (Part 6)

Sramana: Did you have members of your board with you in the US helping you build your team? Jaspreet Singh: None of my founders of board members were in the US. I was alone and I struggled hiring my first team. In the Bay area getting a team together is a struggle. In India getting

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Who Said Women Entrepreneurs Don’t Raise Venture Capital?

A blog post that I wrote on the subject in October 2010 still garners readership and discussions. Meanwhile, our 1M/1M virtual incubator continues to work with women entrepreneurs actively, and I am happy to report that women ARE starting up companies, and building interesting businesses ranging from healthcare IT to e-commerce, and everything in between.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about the data repositories on which these algorithms are being run? Is that still fitting inside corporate data warehouses, and R software plugs in to them? Jeremy Howard: The hard thing generally is training the algorithms, not so much running them. Training the algorithms basically is oversimplified – it is coefficients in

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Thursday, March 14 – 165th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 165th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 14, 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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India’s Flagship Global Product Story: Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh (Part 5)

Sramana: As a first time entrepreneur this is your first time heading up an enterprise software company. What has been your personal evolution and education from this process? Jaspreet Singh: I have learned a lot. I still remember the day that Milind asked me to join him as an engineer in his startup. I talked

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Catching Up On Readings: Computers and the Brain

This article from ExtremeTech takes a look at how close we are to computing the human mind. Click on the paragraph link for the rest of this week’s posts.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Jeremy Howard, President and Chief Scientist of Kaggle (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do with that compensation? Did you want to make it available to everybody? When did it get started with Kaggle? Jeremy Howard: Kaggle was started by [CEO] Anthony Goldbloom. I was the next guy involved. Anthony had been working with the Economist magazine and big data stories. Then he realized

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India’s Flagship Global Product Story: Druva CEO Jaspreet Singh (Part 4)

Sramana: Financing in India has become a little bit easier. One of our 1M/1M companies managed to raise their first million from a VC. We worked with them during the bootstrapped phase. Our advice was to get to the point where they had paying customers. They sell to small businesses, so it’s not like they

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