Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What are the white spaces right now? Paul Zolfaghari: In terms of what I think people are looking for in the market that nobody is really working on, I think you’re going to see a more pronounced interaction between gesture and gesture-based interfaces and the ability to interact with analytics and analytics benchmark.

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Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 2)

Sramana: Oracle must have been a difficult place for you with that psychology. Max Schireson: I liked it because I got to work with a lot of smart people and I got to learn a lot. I also got to work on a lot of different things. I think that Oracle was a much better

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little more about WGU. Ray Martinez: WGU was founded 16 years ago by a group of governors who were representing western states. This is back in 1996 – a little more than 16 years ago. In 1996 at a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association, the idea of using technology

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 5)

Paul Zolfaghari: What we have been doing as a company is ensuring that the MicroStrategy analytics and visualization layer can be that primary interface, but that where the data resides for us is becoming less and less relevant because we’re ensuring that we can attach and interact with that data wherever it is. What’s happened

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Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. The technology startup market is red hot in 2014, and private company valuations have sky-rocketed. MongoDB has raised over $200 million, and is trying to disrupt the Database market. The company they see most often in deals is Oracle. A very interesting case study of a

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Adult education is becoming more of an issue. Competency-based learning that ties into employment directly is necessary to mitigate the unemployment problems in America and elsewhere. WGU has an interesting model. Sramana Mitra: Ray, let’s start by giving our audience a little bit of background about

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