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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: On those two trends, from where you sit at Akamai, how does that affect what you offer and what your customers are looking for from you to support those trends? Mike Afergan: There are a lot of things that come from those trends, a lot of exciting things. I’d focus on three trends
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Bootstrapping an Online Education Company to $12M: Pluralsight CEO Aaron Skonnard (Part 6)
Sramana: Are people able to take your courses and then move on to find new careers or jobs? Aaron Skonnard: Definitely. There is a woman in Sweden who was a dietician, but she really wanted to make a career change and become a programmer. She started taking some classes at a local institute and got
Thursday, August 30: Openings For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 140th 1M/1M Roundtable
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 140th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, August 30, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Afergan, Senior VP & GM of Web Experience Business Unit, Akamai (Part 1)
Those who read my blog regularly will recognize the company Akamai. I have featured it in several Technology Stocks posts as well as in an interview with Willie Tejada for my Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series and an interview with Tom Leighton for Entrepreneur Journeys. Since being founded in 1998, Akamai has been a
Design and Social Entrepreneurship
Guest post by Soren Petersen and Jaewoo Joo The desire to improve human conditions is an inherent part of being a designer. Since creativity is driven mainly by intrinsic motivation, how can design drive social entrepreneurship? Posing this question to creative professionals on online social networks, however, resulted in only a dozen or so comments.
Bootstrapping an Online Education Company to $12M: Pluralsight CEO Aaron Skonnard (Part 5)
Sramana: What plans do you offer today, and what are the feature of each plan? Aaron Skonnard: We have a standard plan and a plus plan. Our standard plan provides access to the entire library as long as you are connected to the Internet, and it is $29 a month. We also have mobile apps
Catching Up On Readings: The Passing of a Legend
The death of Neil Armstrong, the first person to walk on the moon, comes as sad news. This soft-spoken engineer became the symbol of a culmination of technological achievement. Read more about Armstrong in his New York Times obituary and relive that exciting day in July 1969. Click on the paragraph link for the rest
Bootstrapping an Online Education Company to $12M: Pluralsight CEO Aaron Skonnard (Part 4)
Sramana: When did you release your first ten courses online? Aaron Skonnard: In 2008, just as the banking system collapsed. Training budgets were slashed, and Wall Street fell apart. We had an early adopter price of $699 for full access to the library of courses for a year. The idea was that we would move
