By Phil Whelan on February 14, 2011
In this blog-post Bradford Stephens, Drawn To Scale’s founder, answers a series of technical, business and personal questions to give an overview of what Drawn To Scale is and where it is going. Who are the founders? What is their background, technology and business model? How were they going to manage other people’s big data? Can one tool fit the demands from a broad range of data challenges that different businesses are seeing?
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By Phil Whelan on October 2, 2010
I’ve been meeting other Vancouver entrepreneurs at various networking events and discussing ideas with them. A common theme I’m seeing is that most of them are very focused on building technology with location-based data at the heart of the application. This is the next (or current) big thing and it feels like everyone is jumping [...]
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By Phil Whelan on September 30, 2010
“A situation in which an entrepreneur starts a company with little capital. An individual is said to be bootstrapping when he or she attempts to found and build a company from personal finances or from the operating revenues of the new company.” – “Bootstrapping” by Investopedia I just got back from another session [...]
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