Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Joe Langner, EVP of Mid-Market Solutions for Sage, North America (Part 1)

For the past 15 months, Joe Langner has been the executive vice president of mid-market solutions for Sage North America. He comes with an extensive management background which includes strategic planning, operational excellence, and profitable growth. In this interview he discusses mobile and social applications and Sage’s current position on the market regarding those applications. Sramana

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December 11 – 1M/1M Roundtable With IBM SmartCamp Barcelona

Entrepreneurs are invited to attend the 152nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable, co-hosted with IBM SmartCamp Barcelona, on Tuesday, December 11, 2012, at 6:00 p.m. CET/9 a.m. PST/12 p.m. EST/ 10:30 p.m. IST. Five entrepreneurs from the recent SmartCamp in Barcelona, Spain, will be pitching. All are welcome to register to attend to watch and learn.

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Raising a Series A with $10M in the Bank: Dean Stoecker, CEO of Alteryx (Part 5)

Sramana: Did you start the company with a pure cloud SaaS vision? Dean Stoecker: We had the engines that were running the cloud services developed as desktop tools. We had the vision of having strategic and tactical tools and that the tools would be data independent. We expected to be able to ingest big data

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Catching Up On Readings: New Year’s Roundtable Challenge

After the 150th roundtable celebration last week, we’re back to regular business! During this week’s roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs pitch. Before I talk about them, I’d like to encourage all entrepreneurs who want to apply for the 1M/1M New Year Challenge to submit completed applications. We have received a large number of incomplete applications,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: A Second Conversation with Mark Settle, CIO of BMC (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Could you summarize BMC’s philosophy in terms of your product roadmap in the area of the cloud? Mark Settle: We have a SaaS offering for one of our principal offers, our remedy service staff solution. Now customers can implement that on campus, as they have done in the past. They basically have access to

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Raising a Series A with $10M in the Bank: Dean Stoecker, CEO of Alteryx (Part 4)

Sramana: How did people find out about FreeDemographics.com? Dean Stoecker: Everyone wanted free, and a lot of people needed demographic information. We were somewhat close to the Census Bureau. Managing that kind of data was hard, so we promoted the FreeDemographics.com website to help people get that data in a manageable format. We did a

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: A Second Conversation with Mark Settle, CIO of BMC (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There have been attempts to solve certain problems. But right now there is a larger focus on big data which is driving toward the mid-market. That is one of the trends I see. Certain corporations have tackled the big data problem for a long time by investing in big systems and custom-built solutions.

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Raising a Series A with $10M in the Bank: Dean Stoecker, CEO of Alteryx (Part 3)

Sramana: In the 1M/1M program we teach company and product positioning religiously. Our mantra is to not spray and pray. Dean Stoecker: I think one of the key lessons for entrepreneurs is to be willing to say no. I can remember listening to my father when he was a kid, and he frequently told people

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