Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 5)

John McDonald: Think about all the data points in the car example that have to be correlated to be able to make that work. You have to have situational awareness, positional awareness, data about customer preferences, knowledge of how to interface with the store’s ordering system, and many other data points to infer that you need

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Pat Donnellan, CEO of Lumeta (Part 2)

Pat Donnellan: The third part, which is a subset of the real-time product, is that we have built a Hadoop engine that enables the storage of what we’re gathering so that if there is an event – an incident response required – around a particular time, a particular network, a particular region, and a particular

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to point to some open problems that you see out there that you think entrepreneurs should be digging into, where would you point them? John McDonald: To answer that question, I will first tell you what I wouldn’t look to do. What I would not look to do is form yet

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Pat Donnellan, CEO of Lumeta (Part 1)

A different snapshot into the Cyber Security world… can the vulnerability management providers actually see the entire network? Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Lumeta. Pat Donnellan: First of all, let me introduce Lumeta. Lumeta is a New Jersey-based company in the cyber security space. The software

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: These platforms that you’ve described so far, besides the customer example that we went over, do each of these platforms have other customers? John McDonald: In both cases, there are other companies that we’re working with and have been working with to implement an extremely similar kind of environment. For instance, we also

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December 10 – 286th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 286th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 10, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch to a different platform and a different customer and do the same kind of use case description. John McDonald: I’ll give you another example of a well-known company. Panasonic has many different businesses but one of their businesses is a unit called Panasonic Automotive Systems that makes car radios or as they

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Incubators and Accelerators FAQs

This post answers some commonly asked questions about incubators and accelerators. I have answered these questions on Quora as well.