Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Bobby Yazdani, Founder and CEO of SABA (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: These changes will have to be integrated. Let me tell you how we have designed a product or an environment in which we run our virtual incubator. It is not a simple design. We have video lectures and case studies. The video lectures are recorded videos. Then we have case studies that go

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February 7 – 160th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 160th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 7, 2013, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Ms. Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions.

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Bootstrapping to Exit in Israel: Eli Sasson, Founder of Minicom (Part 5)

Sramana: When did you make the pivot into the KVM market? Eli Sasson: We did that in the mid-1990s. From 1995 on, we were active in both the educational market and the KVM [keyboard, video and mouse] market. The KVM market ultimately emerged as the primary market. By the time we took on funding, our

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Catching Up On Readings: Online Ads and the Super Bowl

Our Bay Area–based blog couldn’t resist. It’s Super Bowl Sunday, and TechCrunch goes in depth on why entrepreneurs who work in advertising-related technology should care. Click on the paragraph link for the rest of this week’s posts.

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Bill Simmons, CTO of DataXu (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: This obviously has to happen with great speed. How strong and how speedy are the APRs that you are offering to do all this? Bill Simmons: The real-time bidding in general – and there is some variation in this – is 100 milliseconds round-trip requirement for a response. Large exchanges like Google or

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Bobby Yazdani, Founder and CEO of SABA (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That is where the question I am asking stems from. There are a lot of these massive open online courses available from various brand-name universities, or online programs that are now becoming available. From an enterprise learning point of view, the strategy so far has been just to learn content or send employees

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Bootstrapping to Exit in Israel: Eli Sasson, Founder of Minicom (Part 4)

Sramana: How did you bridge the product gap? You had built a product for PCs, and then many of your potential customers ended up using PS/2. How did you bridge the gap? Eli Sasson: Byte magazine covered the older product, but that was also at a point where we were also almost ready to release

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Bobby Yazdani, Founder and CEO of SABA (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If you are trying to get a European sales team to bond around a sales training module and enhance that module with their own live learning and web conferences, that requires a level of moderation. Somebody needs to orchestrate that behavior. It is not clear to me from an organizational adoption point of

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