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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Jai Rawat, CEO of ShopSocially (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: How did you find them, or did they find you? Jai Rawat: One of their representatives usually does that. They reached out to us and they test tried us for 30 days, just to see what the impact was. They saw a huge uplift. As I said, you are acquiring fans, getting e-mail
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Launching and Scaling a Security Startup During an Out-of-Favor Time: HyTrust President Eric Chiu (Part 6)
Sramana: How much money did you raise from VCs? Eric Chiu: We raised 5.4 million dollars in Series A. In the end we also converted our 200,000 dollars into that Series A. That allowed us to start paying ourselves again. I think you have to have that period where you are not making any money.
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Having a cloud-hosted platform has become the new trend for high tech businesses worldwide. App developers can receive the resources they need to build, launch, promote and integrate their apps with other businesses. This not only creates a bundle of exceptional business tools but it also creates a hotbed of savvy entrepreneurs with working solutions
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Jai Rawat, CEO of ShopSocially (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: That is a huge problem on Facebook: Likes vs. leads. Jai Rawat: Exactly. Likes don’t equal to fans. We say that people are visiting a site already, so they are obviously interested in the types of products you sell and they are somewhat familiar with your brand. They are much better candidates to
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
188th Roundtable Recording On September 19, 2013
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Launching and Scaling a Security Startup During an Out-of-Favor Time: HyTrust President Eric Chiu (Part 5)
Sramana: Raising money like that is very difficult these days. You were able to get VCs to invest in a concept and that is not common. What was it about your situation that enabled you to clinch the opportunity? Eric Chiu: First, I think we went to the right firms. Trident committed to the term
Roundtable Recap: September 19 – SMB Focused Offerings
Today’s roundtable had an interesting mix of companies ranging from Internet-of-things to daily deals platforms. SSRLabs We started with Axel Kloth from Palo Alto, California, who pitched SSRLabs, a semiconductor concept. Axel rightly pointed out that chip funding in the Valley has dried up, and there are very few VCs who invest in the sector.
