Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Florian Eggenschwiler, Chief Product Officer of Xovis (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Is there an online-offline data overlay as well? You’re not trying to map that customer to a real customer in retail to be able to market to that person? Florian Eggenschwiler: When you’re online, you don’t tend to be anonymous. In our basic setup, you’re an anonymous dot with attributes like gender. Sramana

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576th Roundtable Recording on May 26, 2022

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Florian Eggenschwiler, Chief Product Officer of Xovis (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Who are the buyers? Florian Eggenschwiler: It’s usually the airports. There are a number of stakeholders involved that get access to the data. It’s usually the airport that we work with directly. There are also the landlords. They’re the ones that install hardware into the ceiling. They usually tend to be open with

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Best of Bootstrapping: How Ownership Matters

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  For those of you rushing to raise venture capital with a deck of slides or a minimum viable product, let me offer you a challenge: How can you get to a $20 million pre-money valuation in Series A, raise $5 million, and keep control of 80%

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Roundtable Recap: May 26 – Concept Financing is a Highly Improbable Event

During this week’s roundtable, we covered how unlikely concept financing is, especially for first time entrepreneurs. Kula Konnection Up first we had Chandan Bilagunda from Bangalore, India, pitch Kula Konnection, a concept-stage venture that he wants to fund. The Buyers and Sellers Club Next we had Federico Amaya from Helena, Montana, pitch The Buyers and

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Florian Eggenschwiler, Chief Product Officer of Xovis (Part 1)

A fascinating conversation about how Xovis is applying AI to modeling human behavior in public spaces. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by giving our audience a bit of your background as well as the background of the company. Florian Eggenschwiler: I’m the Chief Product Officer at Xovis. Xovis is a Swiss-based company helping the world rethink

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Starmind CEO Marc Vontobel (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You have chosen certain markets to go after. What’s happening in the broader ecosystem that you’re playing in with the same kinds of applications and use cases but in different geographies or maybe different use cases. Who is playing in your space that you’re watching from the corner of your eye? I’ve seen

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: ImpriMed CEO Sungwon Lim (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about your business model. Your doctors are your end customers? Sungwon Lim: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Is it a subscription service or a diagnostic model? Sungwon Lim: We charge per service order. Our customers are hospitals and veterinarian oncologists. We sell our service to them and they add their own margin to the

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