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Bootstrapping to $20 Million in Charleston, South Carolina: eGroup CEO Mike Carter (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did revenue track in that timeframe? Mike Carter: The first 10 years, we were very immature from a strategy standpoint. It’s only been in the last five years that we evolved in what we’re doing, in terms of investing, and saw a much more strategic approach emerge. Quite honestly, there’s an aspect

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Cloud is a very large practice for us. One of the big trends driving both cloud and mobile, and to some extend Big Data, are these platforms. There are lots of platforms now available as a service that you can build upon. We’re seeing that as a major phenomenon because you no longer

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Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 5)

Sramana: What kind of intelligence is the analytic engine capable of producing? I imagine the merchants are the paying customer so I am interested in what you can do for them and what the engagement or pricing model is. Kevin North: The customers are the merchants that are selling on eBay. We have a range

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Bootstrapping to $20 Million in Charleston, South Carolina: eGroup CEO Mike Carter (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like what you used in the beginning is a technique that we see repeatedly. I’ve written a book on this particular technique – Bootstrapping Using Services. The advantage of having services in the bootstrapping stage is that cash starts coming in early. You don’t’ have to take a long, red-ink faith

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 1)

This interview has a very interesting discussion on the future of user interfaces that interact with data. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Paul, let’s start with introducing our audience to you as well as to MicroStrategy. Paul Zolfaghari: I’m Paul Zolfaghari. I’m the president of MicroStrategy. We’re an enterprise software company that’s been in existence for

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Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 4)

Sramana: What year did you sell Dyadem? Kevin North: I sold the company in 2011. Sramana: Did you have to stay or were you free to move on? Kevin North: I had to stay for 10 months. I had to do the integration and I had revenue obligations to meet. I had to fulfill their

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Bootstrapping to $20 Million in Charleston, South Carolina: eGroup CEO Mike Carter (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is the target customer base? Mike Carter: Our target customer base is what we call the commercial mid-market. That would be organizations between 500 to 5,000 users. They typically fall into regional healthcare providers and financial service organizations – certainly not the large global organizations but regional and national groups.