Entrepreneurs are invited to the 377th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, December 7, 2017, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/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 can register
Tim Prendergast: Companies are drowning in data nowadays. You see this heavy push into machine learning and AI to try and rationalize this data. The goal is correct. However, I think the approach is slightly off. New entrepreneurs are looking at this problem of data overload. We need to approach it from a methodology where we
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 377th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, December 7, 2017, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/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 can register
Sramana Mitra: What kinds of customers are particularly resonating with your value proposition? Tim Prendergast: The unique thing about us is, coming from being practitioners first, we are able to understand the problems that anyone going to use the cloud is going to have. In fact, the beauty of a standardized API platform like an
Sramana Mitra: Let’s click down into the process and talk about what it is that you’re doing for these customers. Tim Prendergast: If you think about what cloud really is, cloud is programmatically defined infrastructure and services. Instead of people having to sit and click buttons and work through UIs of products,
Tim discusses cloud security challenges in this short conversation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Evident.io. Tim Prendergast: I’m a long-time information security practitioner and one of the early cloud computing adopters. My history goes way back to the early days of PGP encryption and more recently before
Sramana Mitra: Very good. In your space, what are the trends and what are some open problems that you would point new entrepreneurs to look into? Mike Laven: If you send a million dollars from San Francisco to New York, it’s a far simpler exercise than sending a thousand dollars from San Francisco to France.
Mike Laven: We effectively provide our customers a one-stop connection to a global banking world. It’s very difficult to find a single bank that optimizes everything for you. Different banks and different payment providers have different strengths. Some are good in Asia. Some are good in Latin America. Different currency providers have different strengths based