By Sramana Mitra and guest author Sudhindra Chada SM: So, when a partner channel is selling to an account, they don’t have visibility into what has been going on in that account prior to their involvement? KS: They get a record export of prior activity from the channel manager, and once we hand it over they
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Would you talk more about warrants? Chris: The concept here is that, if we think one of the companies – or two of the companies – has a lot of promise, we could put an additional $250,000 into that company and really help move them into
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In October of last year, Keystone Mercy, Pennsylvania’s largest Medicaid managed care program, reported a lost USB drive. The drive contained personal health information on 28,000 Medicaid recipients. In the UK, there was an outcry when the Guardian and other newspapers reported that members of the Ministry of Defence had lost or had stolen, among
When I first talked about the 1M/1M program, I had observed the need to contain the immense infant entrepreneur mortality prevalent in the startup ecosystem. Over the past year, we have been talking to various investors – VCs and angels, and incubators and accelerators – asking them the question: What are you doing with your
Sramana: The sales cycle you just described illustrates the beauty of the open source go-to-market strategy. I like how that model allows entrepreneurs to bootstrap the early company with services. I also really like a model that allows customers to find the company. Bryan Cheung: Exactly. Another nice thing is that a lot of times
By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Do you compensate mentors who come in to help your entrepreneurs? Chris: They’re all volunteers. Irina: What are your metrics of success at LaunchBox? Chris: There’re two measuring sticks today. The ultimate measuring stick, as a venture fund, is a return on investment to our investors.