When David Knight founded the data company terbine.com, he had big plans. “We’re not a broker, we’re not an analytics firm, we’re not an IOT platform,” says Knight. Instead, terbine.com was designed to be a global marketplace. Specifically, a marketplace for the data from the internet of things—the first of its kind.

“Not a modest charter,” Knight says. There are literally petabytes of data from the internet of things. And no one’s indexed it or made it machine- or human-searchable. Until now.

Fast approaching public beta, terbine.

com has had to start small in order to get big. As a friend of Knight’s put it, “Well, we wanna hear that you have the ambition to boil the oceans, but you need to start with boiling a teapot.” A successful prototype in a smaller market (the teapot) would determine the success of the later, finished platform (the oceans). Because of this, picking the right “teapot” was crucially important.

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