Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 7)

Robin Smith: The corporate clients are amazed. A lot of them have to be in meetings over weeks and sometimes months just to have a project completed. They can do it with us, basically, overnight. Everything is geo-tagged. All the metadata includes time and date stamps. It’s all very secure. We’ve gone through our second

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John McDonald, CEO of CloudOne (Part 1)

CloudOne focuses on IoT applications as they pertain to the industrial engineering sector, primarily. Based in Indianapolis, in the heart of the manufacturing industry hub of the United States, the company caters to over 50 customers, and in this interview, John shares some examples and trends from the sector. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing

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Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. How big is your company? How many people do you have? Robin Smith: I have over 20,000 agents in our database nationwide. We only use around 65 to 6,800 of those on an ongoing basis, but we do have quite a few people interested in working for us. In my corporate

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Catching Up On Readings: State of Hardware 2015

This feature from TechCrunch looks at trends in the changing world of hardware startups, as the year comes to a close. It also says that beyond technological prowess, leveraging more software in connected products can help. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Kevin O’Malley and Patrick Shea, Co-founders of AdDaptive Intelligence (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: So you have to basically manually speed the algorithms with the parameters. You’re almost providing certain constraints within which the machine is learning, as opposed to a completely unconstrained learning environment. Patrick Shea: That’s exactly right. Similar to guided learning, which is very popular in artificial intelligence, we’ve always said that our process

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Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the business model? Robin Smith: We’re basically a mobile technology platform that provides data point retrieval for individuals and enterprise clients. We deliver that data however they need us to. Sramana Mitra: How do you get paid? Robin Smith: Our customer places an order and pays via credit card. Our enterprise

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Kevin O’Malley and Patrick Shea, Co-founders of AdDaptive Intelligence (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch a little bit to a different line of questioning. If you look at this approach of AI in the publishing and advertising space, what are the trends that you’re seeing? I’m specifically interested, however, in understanding where AI is making an impact and what kinds of trends have you seen in

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jerry Melnick, CEO of SIOS (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You gave an overview. If you were to go out and start a company today, have you heard any customer point out a specific problem that needs to be solved but there is no vendor out there that’s addressing this problem? Jerry Melnick: We are going to rely on cloud services just like

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