This is a written follow-up to a talk presented at a recent Strata online event.
A new breed of startup is emerging, built to take advantage of the rising tides of data across a variety of verticals and the maturing ecosystem of tools for its large-scale analysis.
These are data startups, and they are the sumo wrestlers on the startup stage. The weight of data is a source of their competitive advantage. But like their sumo mentors, size alone is not enough. The most successful of data startups must be fast (with data), big (with analytics), and focused (with services).
Setting the stage: The attack of the exponentials
The question of why this style of startup is arising today, versus a decade …
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