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Building a Fat Startup in Corporate Training: Karl Mehta, CEO of EdCast (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 13th 2016

Sramana Mitra: There’s a lot of room for fraud. Karl Mehta: We solved a lot of problems in the payment and transaction space that had never been solved. We didn’t start out to solve the problem. We just wanted to provide a simple service. We built anti-fraud technologies. We built multi-account technologies. The most important things that

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Bootstrapping an Ad Tech Company from Paris: Daniel Nathan, CEO of BidMotion (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 12th 2016

Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. When you got a bunch of companies going, how were you pricing? Was it a subscription pricing model or was it a media buying pricing model where you were taking a percentage of the budget you were managing? Daniel Nathan: We were doing arbitrage. We go a client and say, “We

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Adgorithms CEO Or Shani (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 12th 2016

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about what kind of customers you are working with. Take us through a few use cases of how your technology is being leveraged by our clients. Or Shani: We have clients in every size, shape, form, and language. Some are big Fortune 500-type companies and some others are small.

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Building a Fat Startup in Corporate Training: Karl Mehta, CEO of EdCast (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 12th 2016

Sramana Mitra: What happened to the first company? Karl Mehta: We built it all the way. We had a great Series A from Mayfield Fund. Palm, which at that time was a mobile device, was an investor. We built it to about 70 people. Then, 9/11 happened. We had a hard time. Nobody was funding any

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Artificial Intelligence: Just Because We Can, Does It Mean That We Should?

Posted on Tuesday, Jul 12th 2016

As a technologist, Artificial Intelligence fascinates me. It always has, since the beginning of my forays into Computer Science. I did two startups in the nineties, at the heart of which were AI-driven innovations. The world’s recent embrace of AI, thus, also fascinates me. Driverless cars are all the rage these days. Uber is chomping

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2016: RemoteToPC, Dallas, TX

Posted on Monday, Jul 11th 2016

RemoteToPC is a remote support tool built for IT personnel that provides remote access to PCs as well as remote monitoring and alerts. Its main value proposition is a state of the art, high-tech product at a low cost.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Adgorithms CEO Or Shani (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Jul 11th 2016

I believe, over time, the entire profession of media buying will be obliterated. Algorithms will do all the work. This is one of the sectors most vulnerable to be entirely automated by AI. Or Shani speaks on the theme and provides a great example of what is already happening. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing

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Bootstrapping an Ad Tech Company from Paris: Daniel Nathan, CEO of BidMotion (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, Jul 11th 2016

Sramana Mitra: You’re catering to French clients? Daniel Nathan: Actually, we don’t have any French clients. Sramana Mitra: Where are the clients from? Daniel Nathan: US – a lot of them from San Francisco. Sramana Mitra: How did you find these clients?

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