Thursday, January 24 – 158th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 158th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 24, 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 Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Venkat Viswanathan, CEO of LatentView Analytics (Part 1)

Venkat Viswanathan is the founder and chief executive officer of LatentView Analytics, a predictive analytics and enterprise decision management services firm based in Princeton, New Jersey. He holds a degree in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. In this interview, Venkat talks about

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Bootstrapping to $40 Million: iCIMS CEO Colin Day (Part 5)

Sramana: There is no question that the entrepreneur is the key salesperson for the first 50 or 100 customers. This may vary by the type of product, but in general that is a common scenario. Colin Day: That was true in my case. I never thought I would be great at sales, but I did

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Catching Up On Readings: Graph Search v. Google+

As Facebook introduces Graph Search, the UK’s Guardian newspaper assesses the new product in the context of what journalist Charles Arthur calls a “slow, gradual” collision between Facebook and Google+. Click on the paragraph link for the rest of this week’s posts.

Bootstrapping to $40 Million: iCIMS CEO Colin Day (Part 4)

Sramana: What product were you really trying to sell during that time? Colin Day: We have three products today: Connect for passive candidates, Recruit for active candidates, and Onboard for new hires. Back then, our initial product was an applicant tracking system. It was a front-end, back-end system. On the front end we would manage

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Martin Smith, SVP, Ad Platforms and General Manager, TruEffect (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What do you see as open problems or white spaces? When you look at your customers, what advice would you give an entrepreneur as to which direction to steer? Martin Smith: There are a lot of solutions in the space that are called point solutions. I see opportunities for people who are able

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The problem with technology companies developing tools for the media, especially for whom you call data journalists, is that they just don’t pay. Stew Langille: I agree. We found that as well. We came from Mint.com. When I was creating data warehouses, I also ran the marketing team. We took a similar approach

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Series A Crunch: How 1M/1M Can Help

If you have the stomach for it, the metal to carry on, the energy to bootstrap to a point where either you CAN get funded, or generate enough revenues and become profitable, we can help.