Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: James Markarian, CTO of SnapLogic (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you take us through some use cases on what AI is able to do to the customer issues that you’re dealing with? James Markarian: We’re a horizontal technology. In the integration world, you start out connecting one thing to another. By the nature of the fact that we are a cloud technology,

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Thursday, September 14 – 367th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 367th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, September 14, 2017, 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. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Fuloria, Chief Product Officer at Fundbox (Part 5)

Prashant Fuloria: Most traditional companies that do not leverage technology extensively cannot profitably serve customers whose needs are small. If I were a large enterprise and I came to you to get a $5 million line of credit, you could deploy a small team of experts for two days to go through all my books,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: James Markarian, CTO of SnapLogic (Part 1)

A view into AI in the context of integration. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and SnapLogic. James Markarian: I’m the CTO at SnapLogic. I’ve had a very unusual career in the Valley. In about 30 years, I’ve only had three jobs. I was at Oracle for a number of years

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Will Investors Fund B-to-C Businesses Without Traction?

Check out this comic. B-to-C businesses are notoriously hard to monetize. Ad rates tend to be horrible. You can’t bootstrap with ads. Thus, investors look for businesses with traction to fund. It may take 6, 12, 24, 36 months to get to traction. How would you sustain that period? Caveat: Less than 1% of the

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Fuloria, Chief Product Officer at Fundbox (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You explained what data you’re drawing from. Based on that data, what kind of conclusions are you drawing? Of course, you are drawing conclusions about the health of the business. Is there any kind of correlation? Are you trying to score them? Prashant Fuloria: Absolutely. When we run our AI on the data

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Catching Up On Readings: Top Security Technologies 2017

In 2017, the threat level to enterprise IT continues to be at very high levels, with daily accounts in the media of large breaches and attacks. This report from Gartner  highlights the top security technologies and their implications for security organizations in 2017. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Fuloria, Chief Product Officer at Fundbox (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on the AI. What signals are you looking for? What is the algorithm learning on the basis of? Prashant Fuloria: We capture a number of data elements about a business. First and foremost is the data that we find in the small business graph. It’s important because the health of

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