Sramana Mitra: What happened to the Jabber project? Andre Durand: Jabber continued on even in my absence. I left in 2002 to start Ping. Sramana Mitra: When you left to sail around with your friend and wife, you quit Jabber? Andre Durand: No, I just took a sabbatical. I just said, “I’ve been at this
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Venky Balasubramanian, co-founder of Plivo. Venky and his partner have achieved the amazing feat of growing a relatively fast growth business to well over $10 million in revenue with just $2M in angel financing. What’s even more impressive is that they have done this with a
Image and video analytics are at the frontier of mobile and social interactions currently. Read on to understand the use cases and open problems. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Crimson Hexagon. Stephanie Newby: I’m the CEO of Crimson Hexagon. We are a big data, social media
Sramana Mitra: Was K-12 also consulting services and implementing identity management solutions kind of projects? James Litton: Yes. Keep in mind that as we were doing this, we were doing projects for all types of organizations. It’s just that the majority of them was K-12. Sramana Mitra: The business, however, were these projects? You were
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Sramana Mitra: How long did this continue? Andre Durand: We actually did about $600,000 worth of business that first year. Sramana Mitra: That’s pretty significant. These were all from newsletter ads? Andre Durand: This all began with a black and white, half page advertisement that went into a little newsletter of 20 pages that shipped once
Sramana Mitra: Who are some of the good showcases of your technology? Which institutions or organisations? Jon Mott: Currently, we’re working with University of Maryland University College (UMUC) on implementing a next generation transcript that changes the game. Instead of listing just courses and credit hours, it would actually display capabilities that the students have demonstrated