the business of big data - ia ventures
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The Business of BIG DATA
General Assembly July 12th, 2011
What we’ll cover
1. What is Big Data?
2. Characteristics of a Big Data business
3. Creating competitive barriers in Big Data
Data is becoming the new raw material of business: an economic input almost on a par with capital and labour. “Every day I wake up and ask, ‘how can I flow data better, manage data better, analyse data better?” says Rollin Ford, the CIO of Wal-Mart.
Source: Data, Data Everywhere, The Economist, February 25, 2010
There were 5 exabytes of information created between the dawn of civilization through 2003, but that much information is now created every 2 days, and the pace is increasing
Eric Schmidt, Google CEO, Techonomy Conference, August 4, 2010
Why now?
Source: Mike Driscoll, CTO Metamarkets: The Three Sexy Skills of Data Scientists (& Data Driven Startups)
Source: Mike Driscoll, CTO Metamarkets: The Three Sexy Skills of Data Scientists (& Data Driven Startups)
What is Big Data?
Big Data = Complex Data
Large
Real-time
Large• Billions of
web clicks+1TB
• Millions of web pages
10GB-1TB
• Thousands of Sales figures
<10GB
Real-time
A Big Data company unlocks intelligence from
complex data
IA Ventures invests in early-stage companies unlocking intelligence from complex data
history of big data
Search Engine
Search Engine
Crawl the web
Query
Search Engine
Crawl the web
Query
Storage
Computation
StorageComputation
StorageComputation
Distributed
Distributed Storage
Distributed Computation
Map Reduce Big Table
Distributed Storage
Distributed Computation
Map Reduce Big TableHadoop HBase
Distributed Storage
Distributed Computation
Distributed Storage
Distributed Computation
So you want to start a big data company?
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Your Data Other Data
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven ProductData Products
Your Data Other Data
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE Bit.ly, Hunch
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE Bit.ly, Hunch Zynga, Amazon
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE Bit.ly, Hunch Zynga, Amazon
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE Bit.ly, Hunch Zynga, Amazon
DataSift, Yipit
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE Bit.ly, Hunch Zynga, Amazon
DataSift, Yipit Metamarkets, PlaceIQ
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE Bit.ly, Hunch Zynga, Amazon
DataSift, Yipit Metamarkets, PlaceIQ RecordedFuture, BillGuard
Data Products
Taxonomy of Big Data Companies
Your Data Other Data
Sell Data Compute + Sell Data-driven Product
Twitter, NYSE Bit.ly, Hunch Zynga, Amazon
DataSift, Yipit Metamarkets, PlaceIQ RecordedFuture, BillGuard
Data Products
Moats
Data Network Effects Data Economies of Scale
Competitive Barriers
Network Effects
Traditionally think of….
‘Network graphs’
Marketplaces
Network Effects
No network effects
Within the data eco-system…
Data Network Effects
Within the data eco-system…
Data Network Effects
Within the data eco-system…
Economies of Scale
Traditionally think of….
Data Economies of Scale
1. Product
2. Users
3. Data
4. Product evolves
5. Increased user engagement and more data
Within the data eco-system…
Data Economies of Scale
1. Product
2. Users
3. Data
4. Product evolves
5. Increased user engagement and more data
Within the data eco-system…
Big Data Team
Big Data Team
Data science Scalable distributed architectures
Big Data TeamData DNA
Thank you!
Ben Siscovick@bsiscovick
Andrew Cove@andrewacove