Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rick Kieser, CEO of Ascribe (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else that is significantly different in the text analytics field currently? Rick Kieser: The other element is taking a look at foreign languages through text analytics and how that evolution is taking place. The context of generating sentiment from English vs. French vs. German is very different in terms of

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October 10 – 191st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 191st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 10, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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190th Roundtable Recording On October 3, 2013

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Michael Wu, Chief Scientist at Lithium (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you double click down into each of those two cases and give us examples of what data you track and what kind of behavior you are trying to stimulate by tracking it? Michael Wu: Both communities – whether it is the support community or the marketing community – run on our platform.

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Built to Enjoy: Aptify CEO Amith Nagarajan (Part 5)

Sramana: What was in the association product portfolio? Amith Nagarajan Associations are an interesting animal. They do a lot of different things, but in spite of that even the largest global associations are fairly small by commercial standards. Our largest customers today might have 200 million dollars of revenue which is considered small or medium

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Is Too Much Liquidity In The Angel Capital Market Good or Bad?

Too much dumb money rushing into the angel investment game is inevitable with crowdsourcing, AngelList and other innovations. Innovation is welcome. Liquidity for startups is welcome. How much is too much?

Roundtable Recap: October 3 – Devil Lies In The Details

Today’s roundtable had some interesting entrepreneurs from around the world. EventsTiger First up, Nizamudheen Valliyattu, from Chennai, India, pitched EventsTiger, an ‘event community’ where organizers promote events, participants network, etc. My main issue with the idea is that it proposes to build yet another social network, which is very expensive, and at this stage of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Michael Wu, Chief Scientist at Lithium (Part 1)

Michael Wu is the chief scientist at Lithium. Lithium, as the company’s own website says, helps companies unlock the passion of their customers, providing a platform that customers can use to interact with these companies. Lithium is a social customer experience company with a collective 91 million users each month (more than Pinterest or LinkedIn),

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