Internet Advertising Pioneer: Kevin O’Connor, Founder of DoubleClick and FindTheBest (Part 7)

Sramana: We have seen several bubbles in our industry. First the dot com, second Web 2.0, and now the app craze. Investors made very irrational decisions in each of these bubbles. When will they learn? Why don’t people ever learn? Kevin O’Connor: There are probably a couple of reasons why. I am fairly skeptical of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Ron Bodkin, CEO of Think Big Analytics (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: These are IT applications you are talking about, right? Ron Bodkin: It is an application for technology vendors, supporting and servicing products that might be sold into IT [departments].

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Nick LeCuyer, VP of Strategy and Distribution at Western Union Digital (Part 1)

Nick LeCuyer is the vice president of strategy and distribution at Western Union Digital. He holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and a BSE in civil engineering from Princeton University and had more than 13 years of experience in corporate strategy as well as consulting. In this interview, Nick talks about the role

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Internet Advertising Pioneer: Kevin O’Connor, Founder of DoubleClick and FindTheBest (Part 6)

Sramana: How do you determine a non-linear career path? What is that conversation like? Kevin O’Conn0r: Organizations go through different stages. If you are in an early stage, then an individual’s career development is in his or her hands. When you get to a bigger company, career paths become far more linear. It is very

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Ron Bodkin, CEO of Think Big Analytics (Part 5)

SM: That is the question I was asking you. Are you working with the application layer companies, which are the AgilOnes, the Oversights and another 10 or 20 companies that are leaders in their categories? There is certainly as services business around that.

Internet Advertising Pioneer: Kevin O’Connor, Founder of DoubleClick and FindTheBest (Part 5)

Sramana: Part of the advantage in vertical search is the ability to zero in on a market segment using a precise taxonomy. Kevin O’Connor: Absolutely. That is why we built a platform that lets us handle virtually any taxonomy. If you look at shopping comparison engines, you will see they are a price comparison engine,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Ron Bodkin, CEO of Think Big Analytics (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: There are plenty of big data application layer companies that specialize in specific verticals. Yieldex, for example, is delivering very specific value in getting more out of the online inventory. DataXu is working on the advertising optimization space. There is Evolven in the IT operations area. There are a bunch of them working

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