Today’s 171st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, April 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 171st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 25, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any
Sramana Mitra: Talent acquisition seems to be very active at the moment. Part of the reason is that there has been a lot of seed financing, but very few of those seed deals are getting to the point they state. A lot of those seed-financed companies have done some work, but their talented teams are
Sramana Mitra: I talked to some of the Thought Leaders in Big Data interviewees who think that the problem is not so much the data part. The real challenge is designing algorithms, especially the machine learning algorithms that can take the data and do interesting things with it. The data itself is really not as
Sramana Mitra: I know there is a lot of startup activity going on in that space. What are some interesting startups that you have seen, and what problems are they solving? John Michelsen: I will start with the security space. You almost can’t talk somebody out of doing interesting innovation in security. My first prescription
Sramana Mitra: We are actually also running a Thought Leaders in Big Data series, which is a very successful series. The big data and cloud stories are interlaced stories. John Michelsen: Exactly. You just said better what I was trying to say. You aren’t going to think about big data as “OK, let’s go chop
Today’s roundtable spanned entrepreneurs from Singapore to Israel, with India in between. Storyzer First up, today, KimSia Sim and Kai from Singapore pitched Storyzer, an e-publishing platform for graphic novels. Kai, a graphic artist himself, has lived the challenge of being a creative professional trying to publish and promote his work in the cumbersome world
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