How to Sharpen Focus and Own a Market: Imprivata CEO Omar Hussain (Part 7)

Sramana: Your goal is to become a billion-dollar company. It sounds like one of your primary strategies for reaching that goal is the introduction of new products. Omar Hussain: Absolutely. There are a lot of problem areas in healthcare right now. Things like secure printing, secure electronic information exchange, electronic prescription authentication, and patient identification

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2013 1M/1M Internships: Geo-Specific Social Media Marketing

Students, as you are gearing up to apply for 2013 internships, here is an overview of what 1M/1M has in store in 2013. As you know, our mission is to help a million entrepreneurs build $1 million and beyond in annual revenue. This internship comes with a 1 year 1M/1M Premium Membership to those interns

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Andy Nibley, CEO of Yieldex (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Could you give me a range of your setup and monthly fees? Andy Nibley: The setup fees go from $10,000 to $80,000, depending on how complex the implementation is and how many ad services, order management systems, and third-party data they have for us to hook up with. Monthly fees go from $10,000

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Khris Loux, CEO of Echo (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: So you have a platform strategy and are encouraging companies to build on top of that? Khris Loux: Exactly. We don’t build any experiences on our own platform. We build the platform software community to build on top of it.

How to Sharpen Focus and Own a Market: Imprivata CEO Omar Hussain (Part 6)

Sramana: Did you take a major hit in 2008 that drove this decision? Omar Hussain: We slowed down on growth. In 2008 we ended at $18 million, and in 2009 we only grew 10% to $20 million. The market had shifted slightly. We did not raise money because we already had capital. Once we decided

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Andy Nibley, CEO of Yieldex (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me clarify one thing: Where does e-commerce come into this? Are we still talking about publishers? Are you talking about an e-commerce advertiser? Andy Nibley: E-commerce firms have realized they can also be publishers. Even though they are listing products on their pages, they can also sell ad impressions on these pages.

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Khris Loux, CEO of Echo (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Does that necessarily need to change? You do have a proxy and the kind of streaming economy you are talking about, which is working just fine on a CPC/CPN basis. One thing I have observed is that if too many things need to change for your vision to become a reality, then the

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Women ARE Running Startups

There has been tremendous sensationalizing of the women and entrepreneurship issue. Self-proclaimed (male) pundits pontificate on how women entrepreneurs face tremendous obstacles and huge prejudice. I disagree. A blog post that I wrote on the subject in October 2010 still garners readership and discussions. Meanwhile, our 1M/1M virtual incubator continues to work with women entrepreneurs actively, and

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