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How to create a billion dollar venture “unicorn” in 10 steps
I just read a great post over on Medium by Salim Ismail (@salimismail) on The Secrets of Unicorn Companies a discussion on scalable organizations. 10-step plan for building a billion dollar venture: Select a Massive, Transformative Purpose (or MTP) like Google’s “Organize the World’s Information or Quirky’s “Make Invention Accessible”. All ExOs we’ve found have such ...
Launching #VCchat Inaugural CrowdChat with NEA Pete Sonsini
I’m starting a monthly crowd sourced content series via CrowdChat called #VCchat. It’s a monthly chat about the trends in venture capital and entrepreneurship. This is a topic that is near and dear to my heart. I’m kicking off the series with industry pro Pete Sonsini from NEA. Pete is one of the best if ...
[LIVE CHAT] Hedvig startup Q&A – crowd activated press conference with founder CEO – #CrowdChat
I (@furrier) will be host with Hedvig (@HedvigInc) a live chat crowdsourced press conference CrowdChat with @SiliconANGLE @theCUBE. We covered the startup when it launched. Hedvig is a new platform that offers to aggregate commodity hardware and off-premise cloud resources into a reliable storage environment with advanced management capabilities historically only available in expensive proprietary appliances. Join the ...
#ReDefineBigData CrowdChat with Bill Schmarzo
Bill Schmarzo is EMC’s hottest technologist when it comes to applying big data to business transformation projects. Join me for a [LIVE CHAT] on Monday March 23rd at 10am pst (1pm EST) for a special AMA with “the Dean of Big Data” – Bill Schmarzo. Topic will be about data lakes and how businesses are ...
Trending Links: Crowd generated trending stories
Some of the top trending stories from the crowd in the SiliconANGLE, @theCUBE, and Wikibon community that I’m reading. Enjoy. The Evolution Of Steve Jobs One of tech’s most important investors says ‘you’ll see some dead unicorns this year’ among startups worth $1 billion It Took the Telephone 75 Years To Do What Angry Birds ...
Entrepreneurial hustle or arbitrage? The meerkat pivot
Meerkat, a new app that rose out of their recent company pivot, has achieved tons of buzz over the past three weeks. The timing around the success of Meerkat and the recent Twitter acquisition of a similar app called Periscope. The main question is about opportunity recognition vs innovation with respect to software entrepreneurship. One ...
Recognizing the layers of critical insight data offers
Data is an interesting concept. At a recent CrowdChat #RealDataStories, a crowdsourced conversation which inspired this awesome blog post by Joseph George and Leo Leung, instantly created a dialog about the changing server based storage, big data, emerging technology and customer needs. Then the topic developed into a forum on data and its inherent qualities. This notion of Data ...
Big Data Week #bigdataSV and #strataconf conversations
Thought leaders are talking about the news, trends, and other stories as SiliconANGLE Media kicks off #bigdataweek in Silicon Valley for #BigDataSV in conjunction with #strataconf #hadoopworld. The Big Data market is moving into an exciting new phase. The early Big Data meme was all about data storage and processing technologies such as ...
Jack Dorsey goes crowd storming with epic tweet stream #Twitter #CrowdChat
Jack Dorsey, one of the founders of Twitter, went on an awesome Twitter broadcast today to the crowd. He was making a statement on status of Twitter as a company. More impressive was his conviction for the company’s mission and contribution the management team is delivering. I believe that the team has it right with ...
VMware Google Partner in Hybrid Cloud Deal
VMware announced a new partnership with Google that will allow Google Cloud Platform services to run on VMware’s vCloud Air. This means that existing vCloud Air customers will now have access to the Google Cloud Platform under their existing service contract with vCloud Air. There will be additional fees for usage vCloud Air customer will pay ...
