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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of customers were you working with before you raised the money? You mentioned that you built your business in a bootstrap mode, and then demand for your company or products went up. That is when you decided to move to Silicon Valley. Tell me a bit about what happened in the
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 1)
Omer Artun is the founder of AgilOne, a company which provides cloud-based predictive customer analytics. He studied at Brown University and holds a PhD in computational neuroscience/machine learning and physics. He previously worked for McKinsey & Company and for the marketing division of Best Buy. Seven years ago he decided to found his own company
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: How did you convince your first couple of customers to go with you? Omer Artun: They were people whom I helped as a consultant. Once I built up trust with them, I told them I could do what this other vendor was doing for them much cheaper and better. That is how I
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What e-commerce systems do they work with? Omer Artun: This doesn’t matter to us. It is a rest API. Any e-commerce system can pull the data out of it. If you think about the day in a life of a marketer, we are trying to do other things than just starting up recommendations
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ari Zilka, CTO of Terracotta (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: So, the way end customers access your product is through other application vendors that are using your product to develop their applications? Ari Zilka: It’s a 50-50 split. Half the world doesn’t even need to know we’re there. They use other applications that use us. We help those vendors sell our product to
Built To Enjoy: eClinicalWorks CEO Girish Navani (Part 7)
SM: How does the stimulus bill affect you? GN: The initial stimulus bill ended up dedicating anywhere from $39 billion to $46 billion to the adoption of electronic medical records in the Unites States. Do I like that? Part of me doesn’t. I wish we had just stayed the way we were without external catalysts because we
