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Big Data is Getting Bigger as a Startup Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

This data comes from sensors, social media posts, digital pictures and videos, purchase transactions, everywhere. Hence one segment of the opportunity is the need for new database technologies, like Hadoop , a distributed file system originally designed for indexing the Web. Social media and web data.

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An Entrepreneur Platform To Put You Above the Crowd

Startup Professionals Musings

Then there is the Internet, delivered through every media, including your smart phone, where the volume of data spewing out is like a new Library of Congress every 15 minutes. According to the most recent study by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, there were approximately 514,000 new businesses created per month in the US in 2012.

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The Future of Couponing | How Social-Local-Mobile has Changed the Game

Tech Zulu Event

Precise analytics allow companies to “ measure online distribution of coupons by tracking the printing of web pages and page views;” a significant advantage with digital. A study conducted by Rice University’s Jesse H. It has been predicted that this method will continue to increase in popularity in 2012.

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How To Strike a Chord with Your Community: Plug.DJ’s Alex Reinlieb

Tech Zulu Event

I’ve been an avid user of Plug.DJ’s music discovery site since early 2012, have discovered a ton of music there (which, by the way, I’m still listening to today) and originally covered their $1.25M in seed-round funding from Javelin Venture Partners. was founded in February 2012 by a team of passionate music fans.

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