Tim Prendergast: Companies are drowning in data nowadays. You see this heavy push into machine learning and AI to try and rationalize this data. The goal is correct. However, I think the approach is slightly off. New entrepreneurs are looking at this problem of data overload. We need to approach it from a methodology where we
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For entrepreneurs, there may no longer be as many wide-open opportunities out there to build a startup venture around. However, there remain many, many niche opportunities. Some of these businesses need to be built for very small amounts of capital – $1-2 Million, and sold for $10-15M. Is there appetite among Angels for this type of
Sramana Mitra: What kinds of customers are particularly resonating with your value proposition? Tim Prendergast: The unique thing about us is, coming from being practitioners first, we are able to understand the problems that anyone going to use the cloud is going to have. In fact, the beauty of a standardized API platform like an
Sramana Mitra: Let’s click down into the process and talk about what it is that you’re doing for these customers. Tim Prendergast: If you think about what cloud really is, cloud is programmatically defined infrastructure and services. Instead of people having to sit and click buttons and work through UIs of products,
E-commerce has been around ever since Amazon came into the market in the mid-nineties. What has changed and are there still opportunities in building e-commerce ventures? Here, you can hear the perspective of Gus Tai of Trinity Ventures on all that and more: Come talk to me to brainstorm, strategize, weigh your funding options.
Tim discusses cloud security challenges in this short conversation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Evident.io. Tim Prendergast: I’m a long-time information security practitioner and one of the early cloud computing adopters. My history goes way back to the early days of PGP encryption and more recently before