Getting Customers to Prepay to Start Up, Then Building a $300M Business: RMS CEO Hemant Shah (Part 6)

Sramana: What do you need to build these models in terms of data sets? How do you derive them? Hemant Shah: The thing that we really stayed true to was recognizing what our core competency was and was not. When we made the shift from earthquake risk to natural hazard risk, we knew that we

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August 22 – 184th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 184th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 22, 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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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Todd Goldman, VP and GM for Enterprise Data Integration at Informatica (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to present the industry layers of infrastructure that are going into making that transition from analyzing samples to analyzing actual data, what does that landscape look like? Todd Goldman: There is the raw data warehouse, which today is evolving to be the Hadoop layer. I don’t think the legacy appliances

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183rd Roundtable Recording On July 25, 2013

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Getting Customers to Prepay to Start Up, Then Building a $300M Business: RMS CEO Hemant Shah (Part 5)

Sramana: Most CEO changes fail miserably. Most VCs will tell you that they want an entrepreneur who will scale up to a certain point. They do not want a CEO change right out of the gate. Most of the relationships don’t work out, but you obviously were successful. What did he do that made it

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Roundtable Recap: July 25 – Equity Financing From Customers

Today’s roundtable started with an interesting discussion on equity financing from customers. B2Be First, Balaji Abbabatulla from London, England, a 1M/1M premium member, pitched B2Be. The company is working with accounting firms in London to validate its concept of a mobile invoicing app. Interestingly, some of these accounting firms have expressed interest in investing in

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Todd Goldman, VP and GM for Enterprise Data Integration at Informatica (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are there any other verticals? Todd Goldman: Telecommunications is another one. This is a never-ending topic. When I started my career in HP years ago in network management, I sold to the telecom market, and they were trying to solve the problem of churn.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What enterprise resource planning systems do you integrate with most often? Tom Dibble: SAP and Oracle are the two biggest as far as market share is concerned. We have customers that are using Aria in conjunction with both of those on a regular basis. We also have customers who use NetSuite and also

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