Last week a friend high 5’d me and congratulated me on finally writing a non-portfolio related post. I shrugged...
Dirty Water Trout… yes I over edited it.
How exploding stars might well have changed the course of evolution: http://nyr.kr/117eF9g
In its just-published Hype Cycle for Cloud Computing 2012, Gartner predicts that “Big Data will deliver transformational benefits to enterprises within 2 to 5 years, and by 2015 will enable enterprises adopting this technology to outperform competitors by 20% in every available financial metric.”
Full Story: Whatsthebigdata
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Big data. It’s a term we hear frequently these days. But what exactly is “big data?” Is it a force for good, or a way for companies and governments to keep better track of us? In this clip from The Economist’s Ideas Economy events series, we ask leading experts what they think of the rise of big data.
John Burke of True Ventures in a blog post on his firm’s decision to join us at Flywheel Ventures in financing our newest portfolio company, TerraEchos.
Read the full blog post here.
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