Thought Leaders in Big Data: Martin Smith, SVP, Ad Platforms and General Manager, TruEffect (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Before we get to use cases, let’s set the context of how you are applying big data issues in your business. Martin Smith: In our business, every time we serve a piece of media or every time we measure a side activity, we create log records of that activity. On a weekly or

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I am surprised and also happy that you mentioned those names. How is it that you are suggesting that Tableau is not in the visualization field? There are [data] visualizations there. Stew Langille: They are. But [that type of] visualization is really an explanatory and an analysis tool. Visualization is an output that

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Bootstrapping to $40 Million: iCIMS CEO Colin Day (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Colin Day is the founder, CEO and president of iCIMS, a SaaS provider of HR solutions. Prior to founding iCIMS, Colin worked in sales and new business development at Comrise Technology, an IT staffing firm. After successfully opening a new branch office in Washington D.C., Colin

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Thursday, January 17: 2nd New Year Challenge Finals

Join us as the remaining 10 finalists for the 1M/1M New Year Challenge pitch their businesses to win scholarships to the 1M/1M online mentoring program on Thursday, January 17, 2013, starting at 8 a.m. PST. You can register to attend here, it’s free. We hope to you can join us!

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: According to you, you are operating at the very end of the big data spectrum. There are infrastructure players that provide the infrastructure for big data to be processed and researched. Then there are the applications that provide the domain knowledge and the logic based on such data. You provide the presentation layer

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