Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bob Renner, CEO of Liaison Technologies (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You’re saying that the structured data integration problem at scale is still an open problem? I’m looking for problems that are unsolved out there, not problems that you’ve solved already. Bob Renner: I think scale is an unsolved problem at this point. A very difficult problem that you have to solve elegantly is cross-domain

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Thursday, May 29 – 217th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

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Building a Silicon Valley Style Company from Australia: ROKT CEO Bruce Buchanan (Part 7)

Sramana: One of the things I really like about your platform is that because you are sitting in the transaction, you have a very rich value proposition. You are also able to engage with people who have their credit card out. The Internet is full of free riders. You have filtering those out. Targeting on

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Building a Healthcare IT Company to $100 Million: Dr. Rob Langdon, Co-Founder of T-System (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What scale is the company at now? Rob Langdon: It’s approaching nine figures. Sramana Mitra: Sounds like it’s becoming an enterprise software and healthcare IT company at this point. Is there anything else that is interesting in the story that you would like to discuss? Paper played such an important role. That’s actually

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bob Renner, CEO of Liaison Technologies (Part 3)

Bob Renner: In one example and use case, we married our sales data with Twitter feeds so that we can access the API’s. We pull the data in, normalize and correlate it, and we created a dashboard that allowed our clients to look at sentiment. We were able to dimension that along with the sales

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Building a Silicon Valley Style Company from Australia: ROKT CEO Bruce Buchanan (Part 6)

Sramana: I like your approach because it lets the partners know that you are not taking their data and helping somebody else. Bruce Buchanan: That is very important and that is why our partners are comfortable with us. One of the things that we had to go through with the eBays of the world was

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Building a Healthcare IT Company to $100 Million: Dr. Rob Langdon, Co-Founder of T-System (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Do you have a sales channel that was selling the paper product into the hospitals and physician groups then switched over to selling this software product? Rob Langdon: We tried different configurations with the sales group. For a while, paper and electronics were separate. Then they were combined. Then we tried regions. Since

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