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183rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 183rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, July 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Getting Customers to Prepay to Start Up, Then Building a $300M Business: RMS CEO Hemant Shah (Part 4)

Sramana: Did you ever pursue venture funding? Hemant Shah: We were able to get venture funding in 1992. That was our first proper round of funding which allowed us to build out the business. Sramana: How many customers did you have before you were able to get venture funding? Hemant Shah: We initially had five

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Todd Goldman, VP and GM for Enterprise Data Integration at Informatica (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I would like to take three of your customers where this is happening. Let’s talk through three use cases and customer scenarios. Todd Goldman: There are two major scenarios that we are seeing of how people are using Hadoop. One is that over time, companies have bought traditional data warehouse appliances. They have

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Harvard Business Review: Can Crowdfunding Solve the Startup Capital Gap?

Harvard Business Review has published Sramana Mitra’s piece, Can Crowdfunding Solve the Startup Capital Gap? You can read the entire article here.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What are some new categories of services you are seeing in the telecom business? Tom Dibble: The two we are seeing predominantly are cloud services and content services. The lines are getting much blurrier now between classic telcos like AT&T or Horizon versus what AWS [Amazon Web Services] does. We are going to

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Getting Customers to Prepay to Start Up, Then Building a $300M Business: RMS CEO Hemant Shah (Part 3)

Sramana: So you had the idea that you could approach your customers and ask them if they felt the problem was significant? Hemant Shah: Yes. Rather than shying away from the risk, they could have an alternative that was better than burying their heads in the sand. Some of them were so worried, they would

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Todd Goldman, VP and GM for Enterprise Data Integration at Informatica (Part 1)

Todd Goldman is the vice president and general manager for enterprise data integration at Informatica, a company that provides data integration software and services based on big data analytics. Todd holds a BSEE in engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA in Business from Northwestern University – Kellogg School of Management, having worked for IBM,

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