InfoChimps / Flip Kromer / Dhruv Bansal / Joseph Kelly

InfoChimps Founders talk about handling large data-sets, Mentorship & the importance of Pitching your business

 

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I sat down with the Founders of InfoChimps.org, Flip Kromer, Dhruv Bansal and Joseph Kelly. We talked about handling massive data sources and large structured data-sets, the mentorship they received from Capital Factory and how it helped them get to where they are today. We also talked about the critical importance of pitching your business and the process they went through to do it right!

InfoChimps is based in Austin, TX and their mission is to increase the world’s access to structured data. They hope to do for structured data, what GitHub and SourceForge have done for Open Source software. InfoChimps is building tools to organize, explore and comprehend massive data sources and large structured data-sets. They are working hard to create a community and a marketplace around the procurment, development and exchange of these structured data-sets.

Flip, Dhruv and Joe share their experience with Capital Factory (a seed stage mentoring program for startups) and the mentorship they received. They were selected as a Finalist but just missed the cut for the 5 companies selected to receive funding and enter the mentorship program. Josh Baer and the Capital Factory team really liked the three founders and their vision and kept in touch to help out.

Capital Factory (Profiled in Episode 55 w/ guest Marc Nathan) is a seed stage mentoring program for startups that provides a small amount of seed capital ($20,000) and weekly mentoring sessions by entrepreneurs who have founded successful companies. Though InfoChimps wasn’t a selected startup of Capital Factory, Josh Baer and the team at Capital Factory remained involved and continues mentoring them and helping them get to where they are today.

Flip and his Founders give significant thanks to Capital Factory, specifically; Marc Yagjian (@marcyagjian), Josh Baer (@joshuabaer) and Jason Cohen.

As a result of the mentoring they received they were selected to “pitch” at Demo. For those of you who plan to Pitch the Show, you may want to pay close attention to what they have to say at this point in the call and be sure to read Josh Baer’s blog post, Case Study – Infochimps 90 second pitch for DEMO.

Also check out InfoChimps’ Data Cluster Meetup at SXSWi. The event is going to have some pretty impressive people from the data community and all the details are at datacluster.infochimps.org.

I’ve added the final result below, but I recommend that you read the post if you plan to Pitch the Show!