Internet Advertising Pioneer: Kevin O’Connor, Founder of DoubleClick and FindTheBest (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Kevin O’Connor is a serial entrepreneur with a track record of success. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a BS in electrical engineering in 1983. He was the founder and VP of Research at ICC, which was acquired by DCA in 1992. He was

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Josh Rogers, SVP of Data Integration Business at Syncsort (Part 1)

Josh Rogers is the senior vice president of Data Integration Business at Syncsort. Josh holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in economics from Davidson College. He had previously worked for Bank of America, Endeca, and IBM and has more than six years of experience in data management. In this interview he

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1M/1M Incubator-In-A-Box Democratizes Business Incubation

To enable everyone in any part of the world – companies, angels, VCs, governments, schools and entrepreneurship development organizations – to easily, rapidly, and affordably launch an incubator, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global virtual incubator has announced the 1M/1M Incubator-in-a-Box. This program has grown out of 1M/1M’s extensive work with various partners

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 7)

Sramana: Do you have any unique challenges that you overcame? Most entreprenuers have a chicken and egg challenge that they have to overcome. Jeff Nobbs: We definitely had a chicken and egg problem with our merchant relationships. To work with Victoria Secrets, JC Penny and others you have to be more than just a little

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Once the architecture of the world is much more mature, you are coming in at the heels of a platform as a service trend. So, you basically provide a platform as a service, provide the heuristic layer on top of that, etc. We were talking about business models earlier. You can charge a

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Is The Current Market Full Of Bad Ideas?

Yesterday, Chamath Palihapitiya made a big splash at TechCrunch Disrupt: Chamath Palihapitiya, a former Facebook executive and founder of investment firm The Social+Capital Partnership, said today that the tech world should be “utterly ashamed,” because “we are at an absolute minimum in terms of things that are being started.” Palihapitiya was interviewed onstage at our Disrupt

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 6)

Sramana: When you had just five employees, were you all getting paid? Did you and your co-founder get paid? Jeff Nobbs: My co-founder and I were barely getting paid. We were making minimum wage. We paid everyone else in equity and cash. Their salaries were a little under market, but not drastically. We made up

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How are you going about trying to solve that problem? Are you going at it in a horizontal mode, or are you trying to create verticalized solutions? The interviews that we have been doing in our big data coverage have seen a ton of companies that are working on certain verticals.