Roundtable Recap: July 25 – Equity Financing From Customers

Today’s roundtable started with an interesting discussion on equity financing from customers. B2Be First, Balaji Abbabatulla from London, England, a 1M/1M premium member, pitched B2Be. The company is working with accounting firms in London to validate its concept of a mobile invoicing app. Interestingly, some of these accounting firms have expressed interest in investing in

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Todd Goldman, VP and GM for Enterprise Data Integration at Informatica (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Are there any other verticals? Todd Goldman: Telecommunications is another one. This is a never-ending topic. When I started my career in HP years ago in network management, I sold to the telecom market, and they were trying to solve the problem of churn.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What enterprise resource planning systems do you integrate with most often? Tom Dibble: SAP and Oracle are the two biggest as far as market share is concerned. We have customers that are using Aria in conjunction with both of those on a regular basis. We also have customers who use NetSuite and also

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183rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 183rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

183rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 183rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, July 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Getting Customers to Prepay to Start Up, Then Building a $300M Business: RMS CEO Hemant Shah (Part 4)

Sramana: Did you ever pursue venture funding? Hemant Shah: We were able to get venture funding in 1992. That was our first proper round of funding which allowed us to build out the business. Sramana: How many customers did you have before you were able to get venture funding? Hemant Shah: We initially had five

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Todd Goldman, VP and GM for Enterprise Data Integration at Informatica (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I would like to take three of your customers where this is happening. Let’s talk through three use cases and customer scenarios. Todd Goldman: There are two major scenarios that we are seeing of how people are using Hadoop. One is that over time, companies have bought traditional data warehouse appliances. They have

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Harvard Business Review: Can Crowdfunding Solve the Startup Capital Gap?

Harvard Business Review has published Sramana Mitra’s piece, Can Crowdfunding Solve the Startup Capital Gap? You can read the entire article here.