Getting Customers to Prepay to Start Up, Then Building a $300M Business: RMS CEO Hemant Shah (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Hemant Shah is the co-founder, president and CEO of RMS, a leader in catastrophic risk modeling. He co-founded RMS in 1989 based on his research work at Stanford University. Twenty years later, RMS is a global leader in developing models for things such as hurricanes, terrorist

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Catching Up On Readings: What’s Ahead for the Rest of 2013

As the second half of 2013 starts in earnest, here are some “tech-spectations” from Cnet to think about. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Talk through the examples you mentioned. Let’s take the industrial example first. How much of this are you seeing across the industrial segment? Is this an anomaly, or is this kind of subscription consumer service happening at a larger scale? Tom Dibble: That is interesting, because if you asked me that two years

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Building a Global Software Company from France: BonitaSoft CEO Miguel Valdés-Faura (Part 7)

Sramana: How many people do you have in San Francisco versus France? Miguel Valdés-Faura: In France we have our headquarters and engineering based in one location, and our sales and marketing based in Paris. We have 70 people in our headquarters and 30 people in Paris. We have 25 people in the US, most of

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 1)

Tom Dibble is the CEO of Aria Systems, a company that offers the unique cloud-based “Aria Subscription Billing Platform,” which enables enterprises to manage subscriptions and billing. Tom holds a degree in economics with honors from the Syracuse University and has more than 20 years of enterprise experience, having worked for Goldman Sachs and Company,

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Alex Bratton, CEO of Lextech (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you bring this product to market? This is a very interesting case study. You are speaking to somebody who loves stuff that you can charge serious amounts of money for.

Building a Global Software Company from France: BonitaSoft CEO Miguel Valdés-Faura (Part 6)

Sramana: What is the profile of a good inside sales rep for selling your product? Miguel Valdés-Faura: We have had good luck with recent MBA graduates and we have some good relationships with some MBA schools. Typically we are hiring people into their first or second job. These are typically young, smart people who have

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July 25 – 183rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 183rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 25, 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 Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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