The classic guide for entrepreneurs preparing a pitch is Sequoia’s Business Plan Template. This post aims to be a mere addendum to that in the age of machine learning.

Data is not the new oil

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Software was so hard two decades ago that making simple workflow apps put you far ahead of other companies. That’s why Microsoft had a business worth $879 billion[1] in December 1999. Today, such apps are much easier to make with a…

Beating Behemoths

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Until recently, the goal of computing was to be the fastest. We increased the speed of compute by squeezing out more operations per second. This charge to maximize…

Kanu Gulati is presenting at Strata Hadoop Conference on Tuesday March 29th, 2016 in the section on Emerging Technologies. Her talk is on Opportunities for Hardware Acceleration in Data Analytics, where she will make a case for an end–to–end hardware platform…

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The shift to the Intelligence Era will affect every industry and line of business. Everything — from databases to apps to visualization — is changing as we move from systems of record to systems of intelligence…

In a previous post, we introduced hardware acceleration and types of hardware platforms, and reviewed a few commercial applications of hardware platforms. This article advocates an end–to–end hardware platform for…

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Many years ago, only technical people could enter data into a database. The software era of the 90s allowed anyone to work with databases through Microsoft Access. After that came cloud-based applications that had everyone…