Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You parameterize all these different pieces that are used in calculating the taxes. If I understood you correctly, even in a situation where merchants are selling through Amazon, Amazon will calculate the total sales tax to be collected on the transaction but when it comes to the merchant’s actual filing in all these

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Mike Driscoll, CEO of Metamarkets (Part 2)

Mike Driscoll: Our key innovation early on was that we developed an in-memory database. It allowed us to scale out our offering and provide to a customer like AOL a way to point-and-click their way through a massive scale of data without having to write code and without having to use the traditional and slower

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at the space, what are the emerging trends in e-commerce you see that are creating more pressure on this kind of real-time tax calculation? Peter Horadan: One example is a customer of ours. They’re an online Amazon seller. They started using Amazon to manage their inventory. It’s a program called Fulfilment by

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5 Thought Leaders in Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) trend is significant, and will blossom over the rest of the decade. Actually, IoT has been around for a while, and I have been interviewing leaders in the field to share why things are accelerating now and where the gaps are. Here are five conversations to help give you a

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Mike Driscoll, CEO of Metamarkets (Part 1)

Marketing technologies are hot these days, and Metamarkets is doing some cutting edge analytics in the media buying area. Very interesting. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Metamarkets and yourself. Mike Driscoll: I’m the CEO and Founder of Metamarkets. We are a SaaS software platform that provides interactive analytics to the roles

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Automated tax filing has been around for a long time. I did a story on Sabrix. That must have been 2007. We are in 2016. Peter Horadan: You’re right. It has been around for quite some time. One of the things we find amazing is that it has not yet been automated. Most

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Thursday, September 29 – 323rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 323rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 29, 2016, 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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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 1)

The increasing adoption of electronic commerce and the related national/global nature of the business has created challenges for merchants on the tax calculation and filing front. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Avalara and yourself. Peter Horadan: I’m EVP of Engineering and CTO for Avalara. We help

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