Thursday, April 11 – 169th Free Online 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 169th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 11, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Ms. Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions.

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Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 6)

Sramana: The survey market is quite full, and SurveyMonkey is a dominant player in the market. How did you compete against them? Aydin Mirzaee: In the beginning we were focusing on the Canadian market. We met governmental regulations that gave us a niche market. Once we had that funding, we started to focus on expanding

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Lars Olrik, Group CEO of Verdande, and Jo Kinsella, CEO of Financial Services of Verdande (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: That industry is the earliest adaptor of technology. Joanne Kinsella: Yes. It is interesting that you bring that up. From a cultural standpoint, I hear Lars talk about healthcare and oil & gas, and I think about representing technology to Wall Street for the last 10 years and how completely different those different

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Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 5)

Sramana: Essentially you had to reposition yourselves in the marketplace. Where did you find your sweet spot? Aydin Mirzaee: We decided to focus entirely on the super niche market and dominate that particular market before moving on. That would let us be a big fish in a small pond, and we would worry about the

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Lars Olrik, Group CEO of Verdande, and Jo Kinsella, CEO of Financial Services of Verdande (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: As you are saying, this is an industry that is rather old school, but it is now learning to leverage technology in meaningful ways. Lars Olrick: They have to. They are driven by government and the depopulation and re-skilling of the older generation. They have to take bold steps and use technology in

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Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 4)

Sramana: What specifically did he want built for $10,000? Aydin Mirzaee: He wanted a system built for students to upload their business plans and presentations to a website for a business plan competition. The judges would be able to see the business plans and provide feedback and evaluation through the website. The website owner would

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Lars Olrik, Group CEO of Verdande, and Jo Kinsella, CEO of Financial Services of Verdande (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So the infrastructure is there, but the heuristics are different from domain to domain. You kind of have to set these heuristics and rules on top of that. Lars Olrik: That is correct. That is what I call the 20% to 30% rule.

Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 3)

Sramana: What was the initial iteration of FluidWare? Aydin Mirzaee: The first iteration was interesting because it was based on my former company. I had been trying to raise venture capital, and everyone told me that I had to get money from the Valley. It is easy to say, but I did not understand it.

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