Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President, Developer Relations, Kii Corporation (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Could you give me an example of the types of applications that really take advantage of your technology? Miko Matsumura: It is a very diverse lot. We have a couple of different applications. One is called Astro File Manager. It is a utility-type application for use on Android. This is another one of

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January 31 – 159th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 159th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 31, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others

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The Million Dollar Club: Happy Grasshopper

In October 2010, multiple-time Inc. 500|5000 honoree Dan Stewart began a side venture based on a clear need for effective e-mail marketing campaigns. The project was originally inspired by an earlier venture, a customer relationship management (CRM) company Dan founded in 2007. One of his customers, a marketing-focused teacher to real estate agents and brokers,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Venkat Viswanathan, CEO of LatentView Analytics (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The question I am asking is: What tools and technologies are you using to address that problem? Venkat Viswathan: The tools and technology case is interesting, and again it is another area that has been going through a lot of change during the past 10 to 15 years.

The Million Dollar Club: Indus Net

Abhishek Rungta has bootstrapped Indus Net Technologies to a $5 million, 500-person Web design and digital marketing services company from Kolkata, India. Indus Net focuses specifically on application development for Web and mobile, integrated digital marketing, and Web design, with specific work in SEO and SEM.

From Czechoslovakia to Silicon Valley: Roman Stanek’s Journey to GoodData (Part 2)

Sramana: You were very quick to realize the ability of the Internet to enable entrepreneurship anywhere in the world. Roman Stanek: In a world with the Internet, you can be an entrepreneur and do whatever you want. This was when I started NetBeans, well before Google. When I told people about stock options, they looked

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The Million Dollar Club: Mansa Systems

San Francisco-based Mansa Systems, led by founder Siva Devaki, is one of them. Mansa provides cloud, mobile, and social enterprise solutions, including cloud storage, secure document sharing, cloud telephony and more. In order to differentiate the firm from its competitors, Siva initially focused on Salesforce CRM, partnering with the company to build apps for Salesforce

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The Million Dollar Club: Sapience Analytics

Another Pune, India company, Sapience Analytics, is the creator of an enterprise class solution designed to increase productivity and create ‘automated work visibility’ across the enterprise hierarchy – with no added managerial responsibility.