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
Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting in terms of what’s happening in your industry? This is an old industry that innovates very slowly. Steven Pavlovsky: Yes, that is absolutely true in terms of where our industry has been. We’re in the process of launching a new control platform that has both control aspects and traditional
Sramana: Where did you go after BBDO? Andrew Swinand: My boss at the time was Vada Hill, who went on to be the CMO at Taco Bell, where he did the chihuahua ads. He introduced me to a lot of Procter and Gamble people whom I really liked. I decided to go work for Procter
Sramana Mitra: Fair enough. And the second use case? Steve Pavlovsky: Multiple people working on the same application. SM: What’s new about that? What’s new in the work flow?
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Andrew Swinand is co-founder of Abundant Venture Partners and is also a co-founder of The Owned Agency. He is currently leading Cardinal Path, a digital analytics agency. Prior to forming Abundant Venture Partners, Andrew was president at Starcom MediaVest Group, the world’s largest media agency, with
Sramana Mitra: If you could, walk us through a couple of use cases where these concepts are playing out in your domain. Steve Pavlovsky: That sounds fantastic. The core product we make is a control system that enables a user to control a machine. In effect, it’s a special purpose computer. These computers have typically
Sramana: You are not trying to convince a professor, you are running a $10 million business. You can do whatever you want to do. From a business point of view, what is compelling is navigating the social science opportunity. Let’s say you have a man who gets 10 dates. What tools can you give him
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