Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Alex Bratton, CEO of Lextech (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: To achieve that kind of efficiency and intelligence in the app, did you have to build a configurator in the back end? Alex Bratton: We did not. We had to identify all different types of data – equipment types, facility types, etc. to try to nail down the master data source. Did we

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with John SanGiovanni, Co-Founder and VP of Product Design at Zumobi (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How do you see the evolution of video in that context? I agree with you about what you said about long form content – reading an article while at a doctor’s office makes a lot of sense. But presumably there is also a video element to this, right? John SanGiovanni: Totally. Video in

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Building a Global Software Company from France: BonitaSoft CEO Miguel Valdés-Faura (Part 3)

Sramana: How did you make the transition from Bull to BonitaSoft? Miguel Valdés-Faura: My role at Bull was not only to deploy Bonita. As the director of the BPM division, I was there to help Bull services worldwide. At times we implemented solutions that were competitors of Bonita. We have had projects in South America

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Alex Bratton, CEO of Lextech (Part 1)

Alex Bratton is the chief executive officer of Lextech, a company that creates custom mobile apps for organizations to optimize their workflows. Alex has a BS in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He founded and lead several successful companies in the past, including EmailRx, The Net Squad, and WebRPG. In this

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Building a Global Software Company from France: BonitaSoft CEO Miguel Valdés-Faura (Part 2)

Sramana: At that time was Bonita owned by the research lab? Miguel Valdés-Faura: Yes. Bonita was software that was owned by the lab, but it was using an open source licensing model. We would allow it to be embedded in commercial solutions as well. Sramana: What happened next? Miguel Valdés-Faura: After two years, I thought

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July 18 – 182nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 182nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 18, 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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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The middle to the end of the 1990s was really the golden era. Rick Tinsley: Part of it was driven by the Telecom Act of 1996, because it wasn’t just enterprise, there were also large service providers and startup service providers who were buying a lot of new gear from new companies. That

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Building a Global Software Company from France: BonitaSoft CEO Miguel Valdés-Faura (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Miguel Valdés-Faura is the CEO and co-founder of BonitaSoft, a software company with the mission of democratizing the Business Process Management. Miguel founded the Bonita project in 2001, with the vision that BPM would become mainstream in every company’s IT portfolio. Prior to Bonitasoft, Miguel led

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