Members and followers of 1M/1M know that a core part of the program’s mission is to help entrepreneurs from any region gain access to the same quality of resources that those in Silicon Valley and New York City enjoy. Entrepreneurs may want to check out the EverywhereElse startup conference. This year’s conference was just held
Sramana Mitra: If you look around at the startups and vendors who are innovating, which strike you as interesting? Oliver Bussmann: On the social side, there is the integration of social into various business processes. I believe in that the next two years the Facebook or Twitter of the enterprise will be defined. That is
Sramana: Isn’t there a possibility that a student could convince someone else to take a course for them and essentially defraud the system? Anant Agarwal: Absolutely. The certificates at this point are issued after signing an honor code. The certificates we issue are noted as honor code certificates. We have recently partnered with Pearson, which
By guest author Punit Gupta Another Milestone: The TradeStreet Posts 10,000 Trades The TradeStreet, a social platform for traders, has been growing fast and attracting a lot of top-notch traders since its inception. Less than four weeks ago, the company released a press release announcing it had effected 5,000 trades. It is excited to report
Dave Rich is the president and chief executive officer of Revolution Analytics, a leading company in open source big data advanced analytics. A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Dave has more than 28 years of analytics experience at companies such as as Accenture. In this interview Dave is joined by Michele Chambers, chief strategy
Sramana Mitra: How much of that are you doing inside SAP today? Oliver Bussmann: We have over 1,200 projects that have been or are being implemented. We were the first HANA customer in 2010, by moving our customer relationship database into the HANA appliance. In this case we have 4,000 people in sales updating customer
Sramana: So there is no MIT stamp of any kind on that San Jose State degree? Anant Agarwal: No, not for a blended class like the example I gave with San Jose State. They get a San Jose State degree. Now, if the student took the public MIT course at the same time on edX,
Sramana Mitra: I have a question about the different areas of apps. Obviously, there is a great deal of policy management going on in the enterprise. Twenty thousand people on devices using some permutation of 50 different tablet or phone apps. Not everybody gets to see everything. Is that correct? Oliver Bussmann: That is the