Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ashish Sharma, Principal at Axtria (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Are you saying that your primary value add is managing the infrastructure of data processing? Ashish Sharma: Yes, but a lot more beyond infrastructure. There are a lot more data sources available than ever before. These are growing at an exponential rate especially for life sciences and financial companies. I’m using the term

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ashish Sharma, Principal at Axtria (Part 1)

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Bootstrapping to $80 Million from Canada: Rob Purdy, CEO of Power2Motivate (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to get a first version of this product out? Rob Purdy: We started development for the Power2Motivate platform in late 2005. It took all of 2006 to complete the first phase. Phase one was the employee engagement component. That was enough to allow us to take that

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Sramana Mitra: In 1989, you launched this company. What happened between 1989 and 2006? Did the business succeed? Were you able to get clients? What scale were you operating at? Rob Purdy: The business did okay. Unless marketing services companies have a very solid unique point of difference, it’s really challenging to continually grow the

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