John Furrier
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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 …
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 …
[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 …
#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” …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …