Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Bootstrapper Bootstrapped to $27M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is a wonderful story from 2016 of a serial bootstrapper, then Tanga CEO, Jeremy Young. He built a wonderful e-commerce business similar to Groupon, but with no outside money. Sramana Mitra: Let’s got back to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from?

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Jim Rebesco, CEO of Striveworks (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In the previous example that you gave about stock markets and hurricanes, how do you adjust? Let’s say you have a Black Swan event, how do you put that into the model? That’s an interesting use case. Jim Rebesco: It’s really interesting. This double-clicks on that notion that the data that goes into

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an IoT Company from North Carolina

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  North Carolina, at one point, had a large concentration of cellular technology companies. Some of that talent then came together around IoT, including Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions. He shared his journey with me in 2016. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Jim Rebesco, CEO of Striveworks (Part 2)

Jim Rebesco: Another challenge that we face is the data-centric AI movement. The data-centric AI movement says, “We can do a lot better in preparing and building analytics if we spend that marginal hour not on playing with model architecture but rather if we think, very thoughtfully, about the data we’re using to train the

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an Education Company

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Tod Browndorf, CEO of Coggno, has built an interesting online education company focused on specific niche course types. Read on to learn more from our conversation in 2016. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Jim Rebesco, CEO of Striveworks (Part 1)

This conversation deep dives into the nascent ML Ops industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Striveworks. Jim Rebesco: I’m one of the co-founders at Striveworks. We’re an ML Ops company that focuses on where we see analytics going in the future – a future where analytics

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Catching Up On Readings: Minecraft AI

This feature from MIT Technology Review by William Douglas Heaven looks in detail the breakthrough in imitation learning achieved by making a Minecraft-playing bot watch 70,000 hours of videos of people playing Minecraft. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

December 15 – 597th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 597th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, December 15, 2022, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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

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