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Building a Fat Startup: From Israel to Silicon Valley, Qwilt CEO Alon Maor’s Journey (Part 6)
Sramana: You hired two sales people to do market discovery, or essentially to develop a list of 100 potential customers. Talk to me about the characteristics of these two sales people? Typically they need very precise tools to sell. Early stage sales is not quite as clear and this takes a different type of sales
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Getting to Know LA Incubator Be Great Partners
September 17, 2013, marked the first annual Be Great Fest, a red carpet event celebrating the Los Angeles startup community. Los Angeles incubator and accelerator Be Great Partners announced their launch of nine new co-working spaces set to be located throughout the greater Los Angeles area. Before the event, Irina Patterson, who heads up seed financing
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Yves de Montcheuil, CMO of Talend (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What is the price of the subscription? Yves de Montcheuil: It varies greatly on the types of features the customer wants. It can start from a simple data integration project in the $10,000 range. A typical MDM [master data management] project is in the range of $70,000 to $100,000. It will scale up
October 3 – 190th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 190th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 3, 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
Building a Fat Startup: From Israel to Silicon Valley, Qwilt CEO Alon Maor’s Journey (Part 5)
Sramana: You were starting your company in Israel and you talked to Silicon Valley VCs. What requirements did they put on you? Alon Maor: They did not put any location requirements on us. We had the philosophy that if you want to build a global company, then you can have a top-level engineering and product
Roundtable Recap: September 26 – Launch Of A New Book
We launched a new book at today’s roundtable with a short reading from one of the chapters. The book, The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs): Fortune In The Middle Of The Pyramid, is a collection of essays introducing my current thinking on why over 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing get rejected. It is a Kindle
Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Yves de Montcheuil, CMO of Talend (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double click into customer scenarios. Yves de Montcheuil: On the MDM [master data management] front there is a global travel organization out of the UK. They are a global company with subsidiaries all over the world. They are a multi-channel organization by definition. They have big travel agencies. Those have big posters
