Long Journey to a $435M Exit: Bytemobile Cofounders Chris Koopmans and Nicholas Stavrakos (Part 5)

Sramana: The tricky part of the journey you have been describing is that you had venture investors. They want to see growth, revenues and a potential exit. There is a lot of pressure on entrepreneurs when the market does not evolve as expected. That is why I find it interesting that you were able to

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Catching Up On Readings: The $50 Tablet

On the back of the release of Amazon’s Kindle Fire, Washington Post columnist Vivek Wadwha makes a case for a tablet free of the “bells and whistles” that have been a prominent part of higher-end devices. According Wadwha, the advent of inexpensive tablets will bring more connectivity to the next levels. Some of his points

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Long Journey to a $435M Exit: Bytemobile Cofounders Chris Koopmans and Nicholas Stavrakos (Part 4)

Sramana: What level of growth were you able to sustain? We know 2001 was an unusually bad time. When did growth start to happen? Chris Koopmans: We saw a lot of growth in 2001 because we had had none the year prior. It was bad for markets, but it was an up year for us.

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Long Journey to a $435M Exit: Bytemobile Cofounders Chris Koopmans and Nicholas Stavrakos (Part 3)

Sramana: How long after you received financing from Benchmark were you able to complete the first product you were able to ship to customers? Chris Koopmans: We had working code right away and started doing customer trials right away. We consider our first official product the first product that a customer purchased to deploy in

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Deadline September 28: TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition

On October 4 and 11, 10 companies (20 in total) will be selected to pitch online to Silicon Valley strategist Sramana Mitra as part of the TradeKing Financial Entrepreneur Pitch-Fest Competition. Each 5-minute pitch will be followed by a 5-minute strategic analysis by Sramana. Following the pitches during each online roundtable event, Sramana and Dan

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September 13: Openings For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 142nd FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 142nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, September 13, 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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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Brent Lang, President of Vocera (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Clearly, you’re getting a lot of traction in the hospital segment. It makes sense to build out that segment. Brent Lang: In terms of advice to readers who are thinking about starting businesses or growing businesses, I would say that one of the critical aspects that we spent a lot of time thinking

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Long Journey to a $435M Exit: Bytemobile Cofounders Chris Koopmans and Nicholas Stavrakos (Part 2)

Sramana: What part of the mobile ecosystem did you want to play in? How were you planning to use your expertise in high performance computing and wireless networking? Chris Koopmans: There are a lot of services that go over wireless, such as texting. There are companies that build products based on those services. There are

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