Bootstrapping to $7M with DIY Business Apps: Andrew Gazdecki, CEO of Bizness Apps (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Andrew Gazdecki is the founder and CEO of Bizness Apps, a do-it-yourself iPhone app platform that allows small businesses to easily create, edit, and manage an iPhone app online without any programming knowledge needed. He founded Bizness Apps while attending CSU Chico full time. He is

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Gatch, CTO of Cbeyond (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The best way for us to understand the business and the dynamics of the business environment in which you play is to do use cases and segments. That’s why I’m leading you down this path. Chris Gatch: Sure. To that end, let me give you an example. We have a customer that’s a

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Rolling Up Analytics Rock Stars: Cardinal Path CEO Andrew Swinand (Part 7)

Sramana: Your employees need to have very specific skill sets. How do you find them and hire them? Andrew Swinand: The typical person we hire is an engineer. They have a masters or PhD in engineering or mathematics. Six of our employees are college professors. Between them they have written eight books, and one just

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Gatch, CTO of Cbeyond (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: And what does it cost? Chris Gatch: It’s going to vary. A cloud data center can start at about $350 for a private center, which includes a completely segmented network environment, a logically separate firewall, about half a terabyte of storage, and a modest level of computing resources. It can scale to much

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October 4 – Opportunity For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 143rd FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 143rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, October 4, 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

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Rolling Up Analytics Rock Stars: Cardinal Path CEO Andrew Swinand (Part 6)

Sramana: Today we have to market through so many different channels that we can be overwhelmed. The basic version of Google Analytics actually does not provide a lot of insight. They have very vague reporting of what is happening and where the traffic is coming from or what path it is following. Andrew Swinand: Google

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris Gatch, CTO of Cbeyond (Part 1)

It’s nice to have an IT team on staff, but that’s not affordable for all businesses, especially small and medium businesses. That’s where managed services providers like Cbeyond come in. They offer small and medium businesses the same level of services that they would receive with on-staff IT teams at a fraction of the overall

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Rolling Up Analytics Rock Stars: Cardinal Path CEO Andrew Swinand (Part 5)

Sramana: Essentially you resell advertising technologies as well as ad serving technologies, and you provide the services around them to make it all work together. Is that correct? Andrew Swinand: Yes. Clients have a hard time making heads or tails of all the available marketing technologies out there and can struggle to know which ones

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