1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures (Part 4)

Nnamdi Okike: A second one in a different category is a business called Overtime. Overtime is headquartered in New York. I describe Overtime as ESPN meets Snapchat. It’s very viral content. It’s user-generated. It focuses on the millennial generation that consumes content in a very different way. They’re looking at highlights. They are sharing things

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Terrence McCrossan, CEO of Oversight Systems (Part 1)

The audit function at enterprises is ripe for automation. Read on to learn what’s happening. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning by introducing yourself as well as Oversight Systems. Terrence McCrossan: I’m the CEO of Oversight Systems. Oversight is an Atlanta, Georgia-based company that is a leader in AI-based process automation and transaction

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August 24 TiE Kolkata Event – 1Mby1M Roundtable with Sramana Mitra

TiE Kolkata is hosting this in-person 1Mby1M Roundtable with Sramana Mitra at the Indus Net HUB in Kolkata, India, on Saturday, August 24. Registration begins at 3:30 p.m. and the program starts at 4:00 p.m. Up to five entrepreneurs will be able to pitch their businesses during this roundtable. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register

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A Healthy Twitter Soars

After a decade of losses, layoffs, and declining usage, Twitter finally looks fit. It has had seven straight profitable quarters and usage has been steadily rising in the past two years. Its shares soared 44% following its recent strong quarter.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Also I think it’s much easier to build companies when you don’t have your scalp being poached all the time. It’s impossible to build companies when your team is constantly being poached. If you’re located in a major location where there is a lot of competition for talent, it’s very problematic. Nnamdi Okike:

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Catching Up On Readings: IaaS Public Cloud

This report from Gartner says that the worldwide IaaS public cloud market grew 31.3% in 2018 to total $32.4 billion. Amazon was once again led the market followed by Microsoft, Alibaba, Google and IBM. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ganes Kesari, Cofounder & Chief Decision Scientist of Gramener (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You have not thought about productizing some of the visualization capabilities that you have developed? Ganes Kesari: That’s something that we are currently doing. There are several solutions like this that are domain-specific where we have highly specialized implementations of analytics or visualization solutions. We are creating horizontal solutions. We already have a

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures (Part 2)

Nnamdi Okike: We look at the round after that. What we are looking for are companies that typically have built an early product and have some early traction. If it’s software selling to small businesses, maybe they have 10 early customers. These are companies that don’t have a lot of revenue. Usually when we come

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