In a recent article for Forbes Perry Rotella writes:
‘Recently, on a CNBC Squawk Box segment, “The Pulse of Silicon Valley,“ host Joe Kernan posed the question, “What is the next really big thing?” to Ann Winblad, the legendary investor and senior partner at Hummer-Winblad. Her response: “Data is the new oil”.
Winblad talked about predictive analytics as the new hot spot for venture investing and discussed the growth of companies that can derive value from the huge amounts of data being stored.
Perry continued, “the real impetus is the potential insights we can derive from this new, vast, and growing natural resource. If data is the next big thing, then companies need to think about a new business model that exploits this valuable resource”.
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