Building India’s Blue Nile: CaratLane CEO Mithun Sacheti (Part 2)

Sramana: I have followed Blue Nile for a long time. I have a friend who was an early investor there. Mithun Sacheti: What I saw from Blue Nile stuck with me for a long time. Things happen in different industries that transform the entire industry. If you really look at our industry, you will see

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Over the last 18 years, since the Internet became a commercial phenomenon, many experiments have taken place. Many businesses have been built. A large number of them have had their origins in Silicon Valley. Some have come from other parts of the United States. A few, like Skype, have come from unlikely places such as

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Toplisek, EVP, Product and Marketing, EarthLink (Part 1)

Although you don’t have to forget what you already know about EarthLink, you will have to adjust your thinking a bit. Today, EarthLink is an IT services, network, and communications provider that serves more than a million consumers, with more than 150,000 business customers spread throughout the United States. Cloud computing is the wave of

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Building India’s Blue Nile: CaratLane CEO Mithun Sacheti (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  [Also check out my Entrepreneur Journeys book, Seed India – How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap in India] Mithun Sacheti is the founder of CaratLane, an online jeweler in India and one of the country’s leading ecommerce companies. Mithun grew up in the jewelry industry and prior to founding

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Reinventing a British Company, American-Style: Steve Millard, CEO of Kognitio (Part 7)

Sramana: What is your strongest market outside of the U.S.? Steve Millard: We have a tremendous reputation in the U.K. Kognitio and Whitecross are well known, and we have around 40 customers there. We are the gold standard in analytics in that part of the world. The investment I am promising to our board is

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Reinventing a British Company, American-Style: Steve Millard, CEO of Kognitio (Part 6)

Sramana: When you prospect by telesales, what lists do you have them work on? Steve Millard: Lists are generally awful and cost a lot of money. The folks we have, combined with expertise in the company, has given us a very deep Rolodex. We talk to VCs we know or customers we have done business

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: All the storage is in the cloud. Mark Hyland: Storage is in the cloud, streaming. There are still some use cases where it makes sense to have downloading capability. So, we enable that. What we’ve done in software and replicate everything that a traditional set-top box does. It does the conditional access and

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Reinventing a British Company, American-Style: Steve Millard, CEO of Kognitio (Part 5)

Sramana: What are some of the strategic changes you have made, and what results have you seen from those changes? Steve Millard: Some of the changes that have been made are strategy and targeting changes. Everything we did was focused on getting customers. I have found that a lot of companies that are not successful

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