Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Scale CEO Akshay Sabhikhi (Part 2)

Akshay Sabhikhi: I’ll give you a very high-level example. How do I understand you if you’re a patient or a shopper? How do I understand you at a really deep level? How can I use that to personalize the actions or recommendations to almost where it seems like you know me personally? The second class

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Thursday, November 2 – 374th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 374th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, November 2, 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 Cloud Computing: Ken Fang, President of Mobomo (Part 2)

Ken Fang: The lucky thing is, we knew the event was coming, and we knew exactly when it was going to happen. We had to make sure that all of the infrastructure was in place. The nice thing about the cloud is, for the most part, it’s fairly elastic. It was able to scale up

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What Are Indian VCs Looking For With Sandeep Singhal

We’re doing a deep dive into the current seed investment eco-system and talking to our investor friends about what they’re looking for. Here, you can hear the perspective of Sandeep Singhal of Nexus Venture Partners on Indian Startups: Come talk to me to brainstorm, strategize, weigh your funding options.  

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Scale CEO Akshay Sabhikhi (Part 1)

Microsoft, IBM, Google – they’re all building AI engines. Cognitive Scale has carved out a layer above them – a Middleware of sorts – that enables them to flexibly power applications in different categories. This is a very interesting positioning, and a story well worth reading for AI aficionados. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ken Fang, President of Mobomo (Part 1)

What use cases are emerging at the cusp of mobile, cloud, AI chatbots and spoken interfaces? Read on for a thoughtful discussion. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Mobomo. Ken Fang: I’m the President of Mobomo. Mobomo is a mobile web cloud company. We help federal agencies

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Catching Up On Readings: Seed Funding Trends 2017

This feature from TechCrunch analyses the seed funding trends in 2017. Although seed-stage funding was down sharply in contrast to 2016, investment was mainly in the Midwest area and hard tech like AI and VR. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. 

Building a Robust Niche Business: FilmTrack CEO Jason Kassin (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How much money did you raise in 2013? Jason Kassin: Our Series A was $20 million. Sramana Mitra: How many companies did you acquire? Jason Kassin: We acquired two companies. The first one was a company called Jaguar. In between, we acquired a third company, but that was of a slightly different complexion.

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