October 31 – 463rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 463rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, October 31, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/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

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Roundtable Recap: October 24 – Do Not Spray and Pray

During this week’s roundtable, we had three pitches. Ederlabs Up first, we had Sharat Satyanarayana from Bangalore, India, pitch Ederlabs, an AI data privacy protection startup that is in the 1Mby1M Premium program. We worked on the segmentation priority today. I am trying to narrow the targets down. Tellinga Next, Alex Kurkowski from Houston, Texas,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Daisy Intelligence CEO Gary Saarenvirta (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: It’s consumer-facing merchandising. You’re not driving the ordering of inventory? Gary Saarenvirta: We do decide that also. We set the prices and we also do inventory forecasting and allocation. Those are the three core inputs – having the right product, right prices, and having the right inventory. Sramana Mitra: What kind of quantitative

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In 1999, I started one of the first ever online fashion company. A very small subset of merchandise applies to me in a store. I’m a petite, dark-skinned woman with dark hair and dark eyes. I have a certain style. What I want, which is not possible to do in a physical store,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Daisy Intelligence CEO Gary Saarenvirta (Part 1)

Gary is implementing AI concepts from his Aerospace industry background onto use cases in retail and insurance. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing you and Daisy Intelligence.  Gary Saarenvirta: I’m the Founder and CEO of Daisy Intelligence. Daisy Intelligence is an AI platform. We help our clients make smarter operating decisions. Our mission is to

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace to $10M

CEO Sal Akbani has bootstrapped Gateway Classic Cars to over $10 million in revenue. This is a great story of how a two-sided marketplace was masterfully seeded and scaled in a niche market. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Investors Expect More From Microsoft’s Cloud

According to Canalys, the worldwide spending on cloud infrastructure services grew 38% over the year in the second quarter of the year to $26.3 billion. Amazon remains the leader in the market with a 31.5% market share. Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) is a distant second with 18.1% market share. Microsoft is driving hard on its cloud

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Ashutosh Garg, CEO of Eightfold.ai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You explained to me the data structure. Can you talk about how the learning algorithm learns? Ashutosh Garg: That’s our secret sauce. We use recurrent neural network to model some of these things. Sramana Mitra: How much of this is pattern matching, statistical modeling kind of inferences versus expert system kind of inferences?