Bootstrapping Using Services: Krishna Kumar, CEO of AppOrchid (Part 7)

Sramana: How have you structured your technology to support these various use cases? Krishna Kumar: Our app building platform lets you build apps quickly for these various conditions. We use an agent-based model. That is a cool way of predicting human response conditions. We are mimicking the human intelligence response to different conditions and using

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 1)

We don’t often see significant global cloud technology companies being built out of London. Mimecast is an exception and is likely to go public in the near term. This conversation highlights the activities of a major player in the cloud-based enterprise email system space. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Mimecast and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Dmitri Williams, Professor USC and CEO of Ninja Metrics (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What about stuff like Facebook pages, LinkedIn connections, and Facebook followers? Are those part of the system? Dmitri Williams: Yes. Anything that our API collects is fair game here. You could, for example, have a system with multiple types of edges and connections and we have to think through that carefully, deal with

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Entrepreneur Dysfunctions in Cartoons: Pipe Dreams

Honestly, this comic strip is based verbatim on my personal experience! As you know, I anchor the 1M/1M Free Mentoring Roundtables weekly. After close to 225 sessions, I am astounded at the level of unrealistic expectations and pipe dreams that entrepreneurs come to us with. Still. Just last week, at our 223rd roundtable, we had an entrepreneur

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Krishna Kumar, CEO of AppOrchid (Part 6)

Sramana: So your ultimate strategy is to go to market through third party consultants? Krishna Kumar: We want to empower consulting companies to run with projects based in our technology. They are not going to buy into our strategy if two things don’t happen. First, we need to have similar customers in the market that

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Catching Up On Readings: Cool Vendors 2014

Gartner in a special report has identified cool vendors in key technology areas for 2014. The research firm says that these cool vendors, while not exhaustive, will support digitalization and the notion of “Big Change.” For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Building a VC-Funded Fashion E-Commerce Company: Weddington Way CEO Ilana Stern (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What is your perspective on this theme that often gets discussed that there’s a bias against women in Silicon Valley. Do you buy it? Ilana Stern: It’s a hard question to answer. I think I’ve been really fortunate in fund raising, team building, and getting support from my environment. I don’t feel disadvantaged.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Dmitri Williams, Professor USC and CEO of Ninja Metrics (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: When you’re working within an industry sector where the data is all self-sufficient like a video game industry, that’s obvious. What is the state of the union in other sectors? What percentage of the e-commerce clients that you have are actually using social sign-in and trying to marry social graph data with their

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