Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Borge Hald, CEO of Medallia (Part 1)

Borge Hald is the chief executive officer of Medallia. Borge graduated from the University of Michigan’s Stephen M. Ross School of Business and the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He previously worked for Procter & Gamble and the Boston Consulting Group in Stockholm, London, and Oslo. In this interview, he paints a picture of

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Today’s 193rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 24, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

How to Navigate India’s Seed Capital Gap

India has a minuscule seed capital ecosystem. Entrepreneurs thus have to be really creative to survive. My new piece How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap in India offers a synthesis of how entrepreneurs are getting around. Two companion pieces offer perspective on why the ecosystem is developing so slowly: Seed Investors in India: Why So Few?

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Building a VC-Funded Tech Company from Upstate New York: Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda (Part 4)

Sramana: Would it be fair to say that VCs in your neck of the woods don’t see a lot of fundable deals? Sinclair Schuller: Deal flow in upstate New York is very shallow. The typical flow for VCs was from New York City. Most of their deals were consumer oriented. Sramana: In a way, that

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Indian Venture Capital: Age of Reckoning

Ashish Gupta left Silicon Valley to partake in the bonanza that venture capital in India was supposed to create. He founded Helion Capital, a $605 million fund that has been in business for a while. The style of venture capital that Ashish and his compatriots at Sequoia, Accel, and others wanted to practice was the

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Building a VC-Funded Tech Company from Upstate New York: Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda (Part 3)

Sramana: You established your company and got it funded in upstate New York. That is not one of the entrepreneurial hubs in the country. Can you describe the environment and what it was like to get a company off the ground in that area? Sinclair Schuller: It was less challenging than we thought it would

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192nd Roundtable Recording On October 17, 2013

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