From Czechoslovakia to Silicon Valley: Roman Stanek’s Journey to GoodData (Part 4)

Sramana: Within the B2B framework, your strategy is to get a close to customer business processes as possible. Do you ask customers what their pain points are and design solutions around them? Roman Stanek: That is exactly what I do. I am definitely a B2B person. You need special skills to be a B2C person,

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Miko Matsumura, Senior Vice President, Developer Relations, Kii Corporation (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Series A can be five million dollars, a million dollars, half a million dollars, and so on. Miko Matsumura: We have done stuff in the half million dollar range. That tends to be very suitable for one- to two-person jobs. We certainly have the capacity to go bigger, but we are just looking

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Venkat Viswanathan, CEO of LatentView Analytics (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Where do you hire from in Chennai? Venkat Viswathan In Chennai the two top universities are IIT Madras and Anna University. Those two universities are top on our list. We also work with the department of math and statistics at the University of Chennai.

From Czechoslovakia to Silicon Valley: Roman Stanek’s Journey to GoodData (Part 3)

Sramana: You have mentioned a few of the companies that you have founded. What was involved in going from zero to one million dollars in revenue? What were some of the highlights and strategies you used? Roman Stanek: The first company did not actually reach a million dollars in revenue. This is a great question.

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The Million Dollar Club: Quantifying The 1Mby1M Value Equation

At 1Mby1M, our agenda is to help you figure out how to put one foot before the other and build a sustainable business, irrespective of financing. If you use the program the way it is designed to be used, you would be able to derive value from it on multiple vectors. Let me quantify that

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The Million Dollar Club: Conclusion

I know many of you are struggling to figure out how to put one foot before the other in your quest for a successful entrepreneurial journey. I also know that many of you are continuously chasing investors over customers.

The Million Dollar Club: Freshdesk

Completing our list is Billion Dollar Unicorn club contender Freshdesk. The company was founded in 2010 by CEO Girish Mathrubootham and CTO Shan Krishnasamy. After a series of successful products in his work as a technical architect, Girish was inspired to start Freshdesk by a posting in Y Combinator’s Hacker News. Learning that a major company in

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The Million Dollar Club: InSync

Atul Gupta first began his entrepreneurial ventures in 2003 with an IT provider based in Bhutan, India. His drive to provide software solutions to local small businesses resulted in a move to Kolkata in 2006, where he founded InSync. Over the next three years the company conducted extensive research through their more than 500 domestic

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