Handling Logistics for E-Commerce Vendors: Maria Haggerty, COO, and Bill Follett, CEO – Dotcom Logistics (Part 5)

Sramana: How have you ran your sales operation? Do you have telesales or some sort of sales force? Maria Haggerty: We are putting a lot of focus on growing our business this year, which has resulted in us developing our first real marketing and sales program. Up until 2012, every customer that we have brought

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Having Trouble With Series A Funding?

There is a lot of talk right now that Series A funding has gotten difficult for the tens of thousands of entrepreneurs who have received angel financing over the last 18 months. Some data from PEHub: According to the University of New Hampshire’s Center for Venture Research, the number of active angel investors topped 300,000 last year, up

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of competition are you seeing on the market? I know there is a lot of activity in the data space right now, and everybody wants to be categorized on their big data these days. It sounds as though you have relatively mature capabilities since you have been in business for seven

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Handling Logistics for E-Commerce Vendors: Maria Haggerty, COO, and Bill Follett, CEO – Dotcom Logistics (Part 4)

Sramana: How did you manage the financial engineering of the company? Maria Haggerty: We raised $5 million in the early stages from angel investors. Our angel investors put money into the company through 2004. Sramana: Raising $5 million from angel investors is quite substantial. Who did you raise that money from? Maria Haggerty: We started

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Handling Logistics for E-Commerce Vendors: Maria Haggerty, COO, and Bill Follett, CEO – Dotcom Logistics (Part 3)

Sramana: How did your third and fourth years of business look? Maria Haggerty: As we continued to build the business and grow, we continued to build out our sales team. Our first real break came in 2004. Bill had served as chairman of the board of Lighthouse International, and I was a co-chair of a

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Omer Artun, CEO of AgilOne (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The clustering itself is dynamic? Are you coming up with algorithmic clusters? Omer Artun: That is right. The platform we use runs on a Hadoop-based framework, and it is cascading frameworking. It also has algebraic contruction tecniques (ART) integrated. This way, we can run these algorithms in a scalable, multi-tenant way. Basically, each

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Handling Logistics for E-Commerce Vendors: Maria Haggerty, COO, and Bill Follett, CEO – Dotcom Logistics (Part 2)

Sramana: Let’s bit about that first customer and how you got up and running. What were the dynamics of getting your foot in the door in that industry? Bill Follet: Our business plan had to be adjusted almost immediately. We decided that if we were going to attract the right kind of customers, we would

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It is hard to believe that we have been running FREE mentoring sessions for entrepreneurs since 2008, and just concluded our 150th roundtable on Nov 29. What started as an experiment four years back has really caught on, and blossomed into the foremost mentoring solution in the entrepreneurship eco-system, especially under the 1M/1M umbrella. During

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