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Sand Hill 50 “Swift and Strong” in Big Data

“The race is not always to the swift nor the battle to the strong, but that’s the way to bet” is attributed to Damon Runyon, who wrote about Broadway in the 1940s. Some investors use this as a guiding principle for predicting winners and losers....

2014 Year in PreReview for Big Data Analytics

In the movie “Minority Report,” set in 2054, Tom Cruise plays the captain of the “PreCrime” police force, which uses “precognitive” abilities of mutants to stop crime before it happens. Silicon Valley futurists have sometimes used this reference in...

Sand Hill Study Reveals What Companies are Really Doing with Hadoop