Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 5)

Sramana: You said you raised a million dollars of funding. When did you raise that funding? Jeff Nobbs: We raised money every few months for a couple of years. We have not raised money since 2011. Our valuation grew every time we raised money. We have a lot of shareholders now. Looking back, it would

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Catching Up On Readings: Food in the 21st Century

This week’s Sunday New York Times article, “In Silicon Valley’s Kitchen,” examines the mix of high- and low-tech that characterizes the Valley’s involvement in food production and consumption. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I would like you to take off the HP hat and wear more of an industry thought leader hat. Give me some pointers to where you see open problems. Robert Youngjohns: I think the issue of unstructured data is one of the big problems facing the industry. It is really hard science to

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 4)

Sramana: You were chugging along, making some progress, and then you hit an inflection point. What was that inflection point and what led up to that? Jeff Nobbs: The inflection point was the holiday shopping season in 2011. I don’t think there is any one thing that led up to it. We had 20% month

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What is the state of the union on video analysis? Robert Youngjohns: It is developing very quickly, and we have very powerful tools. It started way back with something as simple as number plate recognition, which is now very established. We have a demo app where we show people where we are taking

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M Revenue Run Rate: Extrabux CEO Jeff Nobbs (Part 3)

Sramana: You started hiring after being awarded 25,000 dollars for winning the business plan competition. However, that is not a lot of money. Whom were you hiring? Jeff Nobbs: More than anything winning the business plan competition was a nod of approval from the University which helped us raise more money. Over the course of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Robert Youngjohns, SVP and GM at HP Autonomy (Part 1)

Robert Youngjohns is the senior vice president and general manager of HP Autonomy. Simply put, Autonomy helps organizations understand the meaning of information by applying big data technologies. Robert previously worked at Microsoft and has more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry. In this interview, Robert talks about Autonomy’s role within HP

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May 2 – 172nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 172nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 2, 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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