Hero banner

categories

HOT TOPICS

Blog » Archive for July, 2017

Bootstrapping from Finland: Vainu CEO Mikko Honkanen (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jul 28th 2017

Sramana Mitra: How many customers do you have in all? Mikko Honkanen: A little bit more than 1,200 customers. Sramana Mitra: What has been your experience with the US? Three markets are Scandinavian markets where the policy is open data. Is the Dutch market open data as well? Mikko Honkanen: There’s actually a site called

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Featured Videos

Roundtable Recap: July 27 – Slow Beginning, Steady Growth

Posted on Thursday, Jul 27th 2017

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Hugh Massie, CEO at DNA Behavior International, a company that had a slow start and hovered in the $2-3 Million revenue range for the first six years of its existence. Today, this fully bootstrapped company does over $10M in revenue and is accelerating further. Hugh offers

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Josh Sullivan, SVP and Angela Zutavern, VP of Data Sciences at Booz Allen Hamilton (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 27th 2017

Sramana Mitra: What you want are people who know how to set up machine learning algorithms and how to diagnose the patterns and set them up with the heuristics so you can leverage the algorithms to come up with meaningful actionable insights. That knowledge doesn’t necessarily exist in the minds of the greatest domain experts.

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

361st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Jul 27th 2017

Today’s 361st FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 27, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Hacker News
() Comments

361st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Jul 27th 2017

Today’s 361st FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, July 27, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Hacker News
() Comments

Bootstrapping from Finland: Vainu CEO Mikko Honkanen (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 27th 2017

Sramana Mitra: What about the product that had to be localized? Mikko Honkanen: Yes. We had to localize the product. All the Nordic countries are pretty good with open data. We were able to buy and open the basic data. We had to add lots of local data sources and translate the UI and make

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Man and Superman: Intersubjective Realities

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 26th 2017

By Guest Author Frank H. Levinson In the previous three segments of this series, we looked at what a singularity is and as part of evidence for the possibility of a technology singularity, we studied the frequency and impact of five scientific revolutions. Let us now catalog the modern intersubjective realities (ISRs) that have co-evolved with

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Josh Sullivan, SVP and Angela Zutavern, VP of Data Sciences at Booz Allen Hamilton (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 26th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Do you want to take a different example from a different vertical perhaps and illustrate more of your point of view? Angela Zutavern: We can talk about healthcare. We partnered with the National Institute of Health on reading MRI scans for heart health. Trained cardiologists had to spend 20 to 30 minutes looking

Read Full Article »

Hacker News
() Comments