Reinventing a British Company, American-Style: Steve Millard, CEO of Kognitio (Part 1)

Steve Millard is the CEO of Kognitio, a company that provides in-memory analytics at the point of convergence of bid data analytics and cloud computing. Steve has more than 25 years’ experience building, leading, and consulting with sales organizations both in the Fortune 100 as well as with pre-IPO venture backed start-up companies in Big

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 3)

Mark Hyland: So, that’s how we got going. Essentially, the first mobile video, as you remember, was very rough. There were a Nokia device and Sony Ericsson device that could play downloadable video clips. So, QuickPlay did some deals with content providers to get some music videos, to get news clips and so on, and

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Bootstrapping to $6M from Durgapur, West Bengal: Pinnacle CAD CEO Bimal Patwari (Part 7)

Sramana: What was the most substantial change that occurred with your business after 2007? Bimal Patwari: After 2007, the biggest change was the size of projects we worked on. We began working on airports, hospitals, and convention centers. That required large teams of up to 40 people working on a project at the same time.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: That’s how things happen. Makr Hyland: So, Shift was a great entrepreneurial experience. We had to raise money. We had to explain ourselves, explain our vision. We were all in our early 20s at the time, so I think we had the naiveté of youth on our side. Starting a magazine at that

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Bootstrapping to $6M from Durgapur, West Bengal: Pinnacle CAD CEO Bimal Patwari (Part 6)

Sramana: Were you able to change the layers of service you provided from 2-D to 3-D? Would you talk about the technologies you were standardizing on? Bimal Patwari: Absolutely. There were several companies that offered modeling software. However, Autodesk has a worldwide presence. Everyone works on their platform. We also bought some other software solutions

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mark Hyland, VP of Sales and Marketing, QuickPlay Media (Part 1)

People have grown so accustomed to online media, particularly newspapers and magazines, that they hardly give them a second thought. Pioneers like Mark Hyland and QuickPlay Media co-founders explored the world of online media before computers and the Internet were as commonplace as radio and television, which have also moved online. Sramana Mitra: Hi, Mark.

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TradeKing Announces Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition With Silicon Valley’s One Million by One Million

Offers 12 Scholarships to Virtual Incubation Program Focused on Bootstrapping and Go-to-Market Strategies for Entrepreneurs Launching or Expanding Financial Services Ventures FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. and SAN FRANCISCO, Ca. – August 6, 2012 – Online broker-dealer TradeKing, an innovator in financial services, today announced the TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition.  The Competition is designed to encourage and

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Bootstrapping to $6M from Durgapur, West Bengal: Pinnacle CAD CEO Bimal Patwari (Part 5)

Sramana: Aside from having a loyal workforce, you have also created a workforce that operates in a niche market. There are not many places in India that your workers are going to be able to move to and leverage American architectural knowledge. Bimal Patwari: That is a factor as well. We invest a lot of

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