State of the Entrepreneurship Union: The Disease Has Become an Epidemic

I have always been bullish about the spread of entrepreneurship as a global phenomenon. My organization has worked diligently towards propagating the lessons learned from successful entrepreneurs to those coming after, on a global scale. It has been thrilling to watch the world adopt entrepreneurship as a key tool for economic development. One of my

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Luca Scagliarini, CEO of Expert System (Part 1)

Artificial Intelligence is going through a renaissance, and we’re thrilled to cover the space. Here, Luca and I talk about the fusion of semantic and statistical methods in Machine Learning to achieve deeper intelligence with specific vertical workflows, vocabulary, and nuances. Very interesting conversation! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as

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Catching Up On Readings: African Future

This feature on Tech Crunch explores the improving infrastructure in Africa and its scope as an area of opportunity for entrepreneurs and a place where innovative ideas for huge markets that have high impact can thrive and conquer. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mike Potts, CEO of Lancope (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If you were starting a company today, what kind of open problems would you be leaning towards? Mike Potts: I think the market is starving for some automation and folks that can bring it in. In other words, whatever can be done to take security intelligence and make that more predictive with a

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Navigating Risk and Design in Startups

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Investing in new entrepreneurial ventures operating within The Creative Economy may be the best option for creating future progress. Startups have the advantage of beginning with a blank slate and their key strategic advantage lies in creating breakthrough innovative offerings while mitigating exposure to the disproportionately large risk.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mike Potts, CEO of Lancope (Part 4)

Mike Potts: Going back to the insider threats, we’re seeing more investments going into the interior of the network to understand the nature of the insider attack. More than 50% of the attacks are beginning to emulate from the inside whether that is the user on the network who is maliciously or unknowingly doing things

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mike Potts, CEO of Lancope (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Take one of your customers and take us through how this all works. What points do you start monitoring? What kinds of things do you find? Walk us through a use case. Mike Potts: We can take HP as an example. We got a large use case on our site as well as

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September 10 – 275th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 275th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 10, 2015, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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