Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lou Guercia, CEO of Scribe Software (Part 4)

My perspective in what’s happening in the cloud is reasonably deep because I’ve been living in it for so long. The three trends that I see at this point won’t probably be new to you. The way that I packaged them might shape what it is we’re doing here for Scribe. Number one is the

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Trying to Turn Carriers and Retailers Into Google: Azzimov CEO Benoît l’Archevêque (Part 4)

Benoît l’Archevêque: There are three revenue models in Azzimov: advertising when you search, the lead generation system that I just explained, and the affiliate model. When someone buys, there’s a percentage take off that. Put that aside. Take that business model, but apply it to mobile.

Thursday, Mar. 20 – 209th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 209th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 20, 2014, 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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Bootstrapping a $7 Million Company in Houston: Gaurav Khandelwal, CEO of ChaiOne (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is an interesting strategy discussion about a company that is doing substantial revenue based on services, has productized a piece of its services business that is also generating over a million in revenue. Where next? Sramana: Gaurav, let’s go to the beginning of your story.

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Catching Up On Readings: 25 Years of Web

On the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web, this CNN feature highlights the landmark moments in 25 years of the web. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link. 

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Lou Guercia, CEO of Scribe Software (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you give an example of what type of things are sports teams trying to do with that kind of data? Lou Guercia: Let’s take the Oakland A’s, for example. You are a baseball fan. They are able to correlate your name and your credit card information to the games you’ve attended such

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Trying to Turn Carriers and Retailers Into Google: Azzimov CEO Benoît l’Archevêque (Part 3)

Benoît l’Archevêque: I’ll give you a very quick example. If I do a search on Italian, red, and car, you see a Ferrari. What we have created is a new dynamic knowledge graph where we only store words once. If I have 500,000 bottles of wine, I’m not going to store the word wine 500,000

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Crossing the Desert, Hitting the Jackpot: Taboola CEO Adam Singolda (Part 7)

Sramana: Can you give us some use cases as examples? Adam Singolda: One example that I really like is Ancestry.com. It is a brilliant example of the future. Today 70% of the $110 billion in advertising are ROI performance-driven spends. The likelihood of that changing is very small. Ancenstry.com offers subscription services and they are

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