Sramana Mitra: If you were to synthesize in this case study, what specifically is your value addition to this use case? Can you summarize and align? Lou Guercia: Microsoft would say they have the technology assets to solve the challenges that the state is experiencing. Tribridge has worked with other states’ Department of Corrections and
Sramana Mitra: What year was this? Benoît l’Archevêque: It was in 1990. One Thursday morning, I lost my job. That noon, I said, “Nobody else will fire me again in my life.” So I started my own advertising agency that’s still running. People were coming to me with their problems thinking that only advertising could
Sramana: At what point did you find your product market fit and business model? Adam Singolda: In December of 2011. At that point, we felt we had the best engine in the world to predict what content people like to consume next. Most companies have 20 or 30 algorithms they will apply to do some
There is much going on in the small niches of the cloud. Here’s a discussion that highlights some examples. Sramana Mitra: Lou, let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Scribe Software. Lou Guercia: Scribe is a software company. We’re a global provider of solutions focused on allowing enterprises to easily bring customer
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If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We normally only feature companies that have proven concepts in the Entrepreneur Journeys series. This concept, however, is not entirely proven. It is interesting and bold. Sramana Mitra: Benoit, where are you from? Where were you born and raised? Give us some back story of the
Sramana: What was your next milestone after 5min? Adam Singolda: Our next goal was to attract big brand publishers. The problem was that I had no idea how to make money. We could not make it scale to the point of relevancy to big businesses. That is when I decided to leave the tech side
Vance Loiselle: Right now, the approach being taken by most organizations is, “We know there’s data out here. Let’s just go solve it with maybe a big data project on Hadoop.” There’s a huge opportunity for organizations to go look at how they address specific verticals and solve specific vertical problems – whether it be