Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 2)

Sramana: In 1998, we were in the height of the dot com boom. I am sure it was a bit different in Toronto, but how much of that market momentum did you feel? Kevin North: We felt it a lot. It was a big thing because within 18 months of me joining Dyadem, my group

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Bootstrapping to $20 Million in Charleston, South Carolina: eGroup CEO Mike Carter (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Continuing our coverage of entrepreneurship far away from Silicon Valley, we bring you a conversation with Mike Carter, CEO of eGroup in Charleston, South Carolina. Typically, these environments have bred bootstrapped companies, and bootstrapping using services continues to be a popular method. Of late, incubators and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Are there any competitors that offer that? Radhika Subramanian: Not exactly in this one thing that Emcien does well, which is complete automation of the analysis. In that one thing, we do not have a direct competitor. In that, I think, we’re creating this blue ocean strategy. Sramana Mitra: Since we’ve already done

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Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We cover Big Data at length, both on Thought Leaders in Big Data and Entrepreneur Journeys. This story relates the tale of robust execution on a very insightful concept, delivering a real-time Big Data solution to merchants transacting on marketplaces like eBay. Sramana: Kevin, let’s start

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 4)

Radhika Subramanian: It’s a method that extracts all of those queries – what we call non-node queries. Send the data and say, “These are all the questions you should have asked. I’m going to rank it for you the way Google does. With that, I will isolate just the core of what you need to

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Ultra-Light Startup to $20 Million in Revenue: WatchUWant CEO OJ Whatley (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How many people do you have? OJ Whatley: We currently have 20 employees. Sramana Mitra: That’s very good – 20 employees, $20 million in revenue. OJ Whatley: Half of those are sales associates. Sramana Mitra: That is my next question. What is the composition?  Half are sales associates, what is the other half

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Building a Fat SaaS Venture: Rob Hull, Founder and President of Adaptive Insights (Part 7)

Sramana: Who led your latest round of funding? That is a substantial amount of money to bring onboard. Rob Hull: We had participation from Norwest Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, as well as participation from others such as Salesforce.com and even ex-CFOs who found this to be a compelling platform like Jeff Epstein who used

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you please position this for me in the context of your competitive landscape? We’ve tons of Big Data companies. We’ve seen this problem from many different angles. I’d like you to get granular in positioning your product based on exactly what you do. Radhika Subramanian: If you have data, the three steps

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