Sramana Mitra: Big Data is AI. To me, the difference between Big Data and regular data is that you have to use machine learning to make sense of Big Data. With small amounts of data, you can do it without machine learning. Shariq Mansoor: One of the challenges that everybody is running into right now
Sramana Mitra: What did you price the Ecwid product at? Ruslan Fazlyev: The model back then was one free plan and one paid plan at $70. The pricing model is a bit different now. Sramana Mitra: $70 a month? Ruslan Fazlyev: Yes, it’s different now. Now we have premium offerings. There are paid plans at $15,
FusionOps was ahead of its time. Founded in 2005, the company has only recently found its groove with the AI wave. Focused on the supply chain area, they are doing some very cool stuff with Cloud, Big Data, and AI. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about the company and yourself. Shariq Mansoor: FusionOps is focused on the supply chain.
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Sramana Mitra: You wanted to set the company for exit. Ruslan Fazlyev: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Where did you go to look for financing? Ruslan Fazlyev: I never really looked proactively for financing. The way it worked is, Ecwid was named as the hottest technology company in Russia after winning this competition by Google and Forbes in
During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Nevin Shetty, CEO of Blueprint Registry. Nevin did TechStars last year, and we discussed some strategies for getting into YCombinator and TechStars, the two seed fund accelerators that are high quality and worth going through. Note, there are very few among the 7500+ accelerators out there that are
Sramana Mitra: Not only did you have the platform but you were also offering the integrated consulting services to implement it. Ruslan Fazlyev: Yes, that was the X-Cart approach but it was not good enough for some customers. Some customers asked, “Is there any way to integrate my store into my site without ever having