Building a Fat Startup: From Israel to Silicon Valley, Qwilt CEO Alon Maor’s Journey (Part 2)

Sramana: One of the big problems that we see in big startup teams is that people just meet and try to do a startup together. That’s like getting married after a one-night stand. It’s a disaster. Alon Maor: What I found out about the team is that it is all about the people. You have

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Harvard Business Review: When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money

Harvard Business Review has published Sramana Mitra’s piece When Big Companies Support Start-ups, Both Make More Money. You can read the entire article here.

Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Jai Rawat, CEO of ShopSocially (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Yes and no. 1M/1M, for example, is entirely marketed through content in our media work and social media. Jai Rawat: But you are not trying to sell something. SM: We are and we are not. JR: It is content.

Thursday, September 26 – 189th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 189th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 26, 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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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2013: Kobster

The Indian ecommerce market has attracted many a retailer. In particular, niche sectors like office supplies that has an annual growth rate of 15 to 20% is attracting quite a few ecommerce ventures. One such ecommerce startup is Kobster.com, a one-stop e-destination for office supplies. In the highly unorganized office supplies market, Kobster provides an

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Building a Fat Startup: From Israel to Silicon Valley, Qwilt CEO Alon Maor’s Journey (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Alon Maor is the CEO and co-founder of Qwilt, a company that builds products to allow network carriers to create a universal video fabric without interruption or changes to content provider or network infrastructures. Prior to Qwilt, Alon oversaw the development and operations of the Service

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Jai Rawat, CEO of ShopSocially (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Is online retail the main category where you do business? Jai Rawat: Yes. Right now that is our focus area. We are beginning to look at some offline components as well. In offline there are two areas we are looking at right now. To begin with, we are looking at using offline to

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Launching and Scaling a Security Startup During an Out-of-Favor Time: HyTrust President Eric Chiu (Part 7)

Sramana: What about your company team? When you started you where you the CEO? Eric Chiu: When we started out I was CEO and Renata was VP of Product Management. We hired on a CTO soon after who I consider a quasi founder. We then hired a Sales VP from VMWare. Jim Gannon is still

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