Catching Up On Readings: Disrupt SF Hackathon

This feature from the TechCrunch covers the highlights of the Disrupt San Francisco Hackathon held over this weekend. The winner of the grand prize is Alexa Shop Assist while ASLink and SpeechCoach.ai are the runners up. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Top Security Technologies 2017

In 2017, the threat level to enterprise IT continues to be at very high levels, with daily accounts in the media of large breaches and attacks. This report from Gartner  highlights the top security technologies and their implications for security organizations in 2017. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Cool Vendors 2017

This report from Gartner lists disruptive vendors exploiting digitization, blockchain, artificial intelligence, conversational user experience, and the Internet of Things (IoT) to build the next generation of innovation and offer unprecedented opportunities to exploit new business models.. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

What is the Difference Between Business Model and Exit Strategy?

Watch this 41 second cartoon video.

A Business Model is how you monetize your value proposition.

Exit Strategy is how investors (including founders) monetize their shares.

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Catching Up On Readings: US Mobile Apps 2017

This feature from TechCrunch covers the highlights of comScore’s newly released report on US Mobile Apps. It says that about 57% of consumers’ time on digital media is spent on apps. However, only 49% download more than one new app in a month. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Big Data Top 25

This report from Datamation profiles the top 25 Big Data companies. The list includes not just the giants but also lesser known Big Data startups like Striim, Alteryx, Pentaho, and Mu Sigma. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Indian Accelerator Ecosystem

According to Indian software industry body Nasscom, 2016 witnessed a 40% growth in the number of accelerators and incubators. This feature from Economic Times covers the accelerator ecosystem in India. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: IPO Pipeline in August

This feature from Nasdaq, looks at the IPOs in the pipeline for August 2017 and provides a snapshot of the recently listed stocks. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
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