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Building a VC-Funded Tech Company from Upstate New York: Sinclair Schuller, CEO of Apprenda (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Oct 21st 2013

Sinclair Schuller is the CEO of Apprenda. With his two co-founders, Schuller has secured $16 million in VC funding to date. Investors include NEA, Ignition Partners, and High Peak Ventures.  Apprenda delivers private and public PaaS to enterprise developers. Sinclair serves on multiple venture networks and speaks nationally on the topics of enterprise IT efficiency,

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 7)

Posted on Sunday, Oct 20th 2013

Sramana: You own the company 100%. How do you incentivize your employees aside from salary? Do you have a private stock option plan? Arvind Agarwalla: We do not have a stock option plan, and that would not make sense because I really have no intention of exiting the company. Our sales team operates with an

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Oct 19th 2013

Sramana: Have you lost clients to the companies that offer an SaaS model? Arvind Agarwalla: We have not lost any clients to the public cloud. We offer our clients a private cloud option. We allow our clients to determine what kind of security they want. They allow what branches they want to connect to the

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October 24 – 193rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Oct 18th 2013

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 193rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 24, 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

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2013: GeoLoqal, New York

Posted on Friday, Oct 18th 2013

GeoLoqal is a mobile platform-as-a-service specifically designed for building location-specific applications with complex geo-targeting functionality. Its main value proposition is that by using its “Snap In”  geolocation related functionality, developers, OEMs/ISVs and enterprises can build powerful location based solutions without investing in development/testing and reduce the time to market. GeoLoqal was founded in 2012 by

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Oct 18th 2013

Sramana: In the history of any company, a few key people become the legs on which the table stands. Who were those people for you, and how did you find them? Kolkata was not the hotbed of management talent. Arvind Agarwalla: If you look at a product company, research and development is one leg. Sales

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Roundtable Recap – October 17: Serious Entrepreneurs Have Resilience

Posted on Thursday, Oct 17th 2013

Today’s roundtable had several entrepreneurs who seem like serious folks with the resilience to see their visions through to fruition. HappyWeddings First up, Janaki Pendyala from Hyderabad, India, pitched HappyWeddings, a portal for wedding organizers to connect with vendors like caterers and such. Janaki is experiencing the slow growth and adoption rate of the Indian

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192nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Oct 17th 2013

Today’s 192nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 17, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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