Raising a Series A with $10M in the Bank: Dean Stoecker, CEO of Alteryx (Part 7)

Sramana: How much did you raise in your Series A? Dean Stoecker: We accepted $6 million of investment. Sramana: SAP is a corporate venture fund. Why did you select them over the others? Dean Stoecker: The others were not corporate ventures and were not strategic for us. They were all firms with growth equity plays.

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152nd Roundtable Recap: December 11 – IBM SmartCamp Barcelona

For this week’s roundtable, we worked with Marco Laucelli, who manages IBM’s SmartCamp program in Barcelona. Their recently concluded SmartCamp event had over 90 applicants, and five finalists. In today’s event, three of these five finalists were the presenters. Quadrigram First up, Ayman Moghnieh pitched Quadrigram, a data visualization technology that could have applications in

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152nd Roundtable Recording With IBM SmartCamp Barcelona On December 11, 2012

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Joe Langner, EVP of Mid-Market Solutions for Sage, North America (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: At the level you are talking about, the competitor is no longer QuickBooks, it is Intacct and Netsuite. Joe Langner: When you look purely at the enterprise resource planning (ERP) of Netsuite and Intacct, you can say that there can be friction. We do want to have the best ERP and the best

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Raising a Series A with $10M in the Bank: Dean Stoecker, CEO of Alteryx (Part 6)

Sramana: What was your motivation for contracting your technical offerings down from seven analytics engines into your current offering? Dean Stoecker: We realized that we could not scale the company with a bunch of sales people. We certainly could not scale in terms of marketing if we had to pitch seven different analysis engines. Instead,

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Startup Teaches Kids How To Write, Invites Teachers and Students To Join

Most kids use technology for games and music. What about using technology to learn to write, an essential skill to master early in life? With Cubert’s Cube, entrepreneur Melanie Kusmik is attempting to do just that – teaching kids how to write by harnessing the power of the social web. Years of experience in software

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