Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 3)

Sramana: What is the business model? Jana: The business model itself is extremely demanding. The name of the company is Steals.com, and we have four niche daily deal websites that cater to women. The first one I started is BabySTEALS.com. We launch one new steal every 12 hours at 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. Pacific

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Chris Carter, CEO of Approyo (Part 1)

Chris Carter is the chief executive officer of Approyo, a company specializing in big data analytics. He is also member of the SAP Startup Focus Program, and a premium member of the 1M/1M program. In this interview Chris talks about Approyo’s view on big data and presents several use cases from various industry verticals, specifying

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Your lab is now basically one that specializes in data visualization across different verticals. JR Reagan: Yes. With innovation, we started getting called in to being more than just analytics. Now we are asked to come up with the next idea around the use of certain technologies in different ways – 3-D printing,

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Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 2)

Sramana: Is that what drove you to become an entrepreneur? Jana: As I drove away, I realized that I was a capable, smart girl who had been through harder things in life. I was perfectly capable of coming up with something that I would be able to do from home and make enough of an

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take use cases of real customer problems and how you are using large-scale visualization to add value to those problems and generate solutions. JR Reagan: One unique problem we thought was interesting comes from one of the large global retailers. Around the time of Hurricane Irene [in August 2011] they called us

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Built to Enjoy in Utah: Jana Francis, Founder, Steals.com (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Jana Francis is the co-founder of Steal Network, an interactive marketing company that delivers top-quality brands and products one day at a time to their online communities of women through the websites babySTEALS.com, scrapbookSTEALS.com, kidSTEALS.com, and sheSTEALS.com. Before founding Steal Network, Jana spent her career specializing

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with JR Reagan, Federal Chief Innovation Officer at Deloitte Services (Part 1)

JR Reagan is the chief innovation officer for the federal practice at Deloitte Services. He teaches innovation and creativity at John Hopkins University and holds a masters in management information systems from Bowie State University and a BA in sociology from the State University of New York. In this interview he talks about Deloitte’s creative

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Steven Levy, CEO of Verivo Software (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The point is that even if you are trying to build an enterprise software developer network around your platform, it is still a different strategy from selling the platform to enterprises for them to use and build their own apps. We are definitely seeing a trend from a lot of technology companies trying

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