OfficePulse (soon)

The next big thing… DATA

The Cloud, Web apps, Mobile have all reached its peak. We cant thing of these as the next big thing. By now, we moved all our local data to the cloud and we use different kinds of web applications. Then mobile came and we could access all this data in our mobile devices. We have all this data in the cloud, in different systems and we have a problem. How do we use all this data? How can we access all this data? How can we transform all this data into information?

All these data is generated across all these different systems. Its hard to think of a system today that wont give us a metric, of how much traffic we got, how many orders we received, how many employees are at the office, what are people tweeting about our brand, etc

All this data has to be consolidated, and transformed into information, in real-time, and with some intelligence to mix and match them to get in a snapshot a real-time status or situation of our business.

We can dig deeper into the subject and analyze of data scientists are the ones to be key players in any future business, or not, but for sure, we need to start listening to people that can transform data into information.

Streamer consolidates all the data sources into one system, and lets you visualize the data in a consistent way. We also built the system in a way so any developer/data scientists can create its own data services and transform the data into information they want to see.

www.streamerapp.com

We just clicked on the submit button!

“You may say I am a dreamer… but I am not the only one!

Good luck to all applicants.

Starting a new Business will always make sense

“…Any business is a good business…” a friend of mine told me once. This means that to be in business is already a great achievement. But why do people start multiple businesses? In my case, I own three other companies, related to the web/internet industry that are doing great. But, again, why would I start a separate operation, under a new brand and a completely different focus to business? Its hard to answer, and I guess no one knows exactly the actual reason. Some people are just like that, they need the adrenaline, the focus and the experience, that a new business brings to the table. Its stuff that you dont get to learn anywhere, you just have to do it, and to be great it is an iterative process.

If it makes sense, it depends on who you are and your life goals. Some people, are fine with one business where they do OK, which is valid, and some others (serial entrepreneurs) feel that building once, and doing it for a lifetime, is boring and doesn’t bring any excitement after years doing the same job. With so much stuff going on for web people, to not build is to loose time, big time. Build, ship, build and ship. Thats a nice process. get feedback, and keep building until the market is there.

Once you ve been through this, it is addictive. And you need to do it again and again, focusing on different markets, different groups of people, different technologies, etc

Maybe you dont hit a home run, but you had fun, learned and created value for a lot of people. Also, the sum of all business may find you on an amazing position. That may be the reason and why it will always make sense to start a new business.