Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Paul Zolfaghari, President of MicroStrategy (Part 1)

This interview has a very interesting discussion on the future of user interfaces that interact with data. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Paul, let’s start with introducing our audience to you as well as to MicroStrategy. Paul Zolfaghari: I’m Paul Zolfaghari. I’m the president of MicroStrategy. We’re an enterprise software company that’s been in existence for

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Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 4)

Sramana: What year did you sell Dyadem? Kevin North: I sold the company in 2011. Sramana: Did you have to stay or were you free to move on? Kevin North: I had to stay for 10 months. I had to do the integration and I had revenue obligations to meet. I had to fulfill their

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Absolutely. If you were starting a company today, what unsolved problem would you be looking at? Radhika Subramanian: Education. Sramana Mitra: What about education? Have you given it any further thought? Education is going through a massive disruption right now.

Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 3)

Sramana: When did you decide to raise money? Kevin North: In 2006, I decided to raise money because we were experiencing some traction. We were still in single digits but that was a big improvement from 2004 when we still had less than $1 million in revenue. When I was raising money, we were at

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I think what made Google happen is their business model innovation. Radhika Subramanian: It was their business model, but it was also the fact that it was ranked search as opposed to just search. There are some of those parallels here as well. I don’t know how many times we hear this where

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Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 2)

Sramana: In 1998, we were in the height of the dot com boom. I am sure it was a bit different in Toronto, but how much of that market momentum did you feel? Kevin North: We felt it a lot. It was a big thing because within 18 months of me joining Dyadem, my group

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Radhika Subramanian, CEO of Emcien (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Are there any competitors that offer that? Radhika Subramanian: Not exactly in this one thing that Emcien does well, which is complete automation of the analysis. In that one thing, we do not have a direct competitor. In that, I think, we’re creating this blue ocean strategy. Sramana Mitra: Since we’ve already done

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Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We cover Big Data at length, both on Thought Leaders in Big Data and Entrepreneur Journeys. This story relates the tale of robust execution on a very insightful concept, delivering a real-time Big Data solution to merchants transacting on marketplaces like eBay. Sramana: Kevin, let’s start

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