August 22 – 184th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 184th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 22, 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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Helping SaaS Companies Grow Through Revenue Sharing: Avangate CEO Carl Theobald (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Carl Theobald is the CEO of Avangate, a e-commerce and partner management solutions provider for software-as-a-service companies. Theobald has held senior executive roles at both large enterprise and venture-backed software companies, including being a VP at Oracle, founder at RubiconSoft, and SVP at Serena Software. At

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with David Gibson, VP of Marketing at Varonis (Part 1)

David Gibson is the vice president of marketing at Varonis, a company for data protection. David studied physics at Duke University and a BM in classical composition from the New England Conservatory of Music. He has more than 17 years of experience in IT as a systems and sales engineer, having worked for Time Inc.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rajat Paharia, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Gamification Leader Bunchball (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: From an industry point of view, when you look around at what people are doing or trying to do, what is missing from the landscape? Rajat Paharia: If you are running a business or are a manager of a business, Facebook, Netflix, and Amazon all probably know more about your employees than you

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Indian Services Entrepreneurs Venturing Into Products: Suresh Shankar and Srikant Sastri, CoFounders of Crayon Data (Part 7)

Sramana: Who were your early adopter customers and what is it that made them converge to you? How did you clinch those deals? Suresh Shankar: Essentially we are building a choice engine in a way that gives you multiple ways to apply it to your needs. In one case we have been working with a

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rajat Paharia, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Gamification Leader Bunchball (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me what the big data aspect of this is? Rajat Paharia: Gamification wouldn’t exist without big data. Gamification is completely based on statistics – statistics about users and the things they are doing. In context to the book I mentioned earlier, Loyalty 3.0, Loyalty 1.0 was about loyalty programs. These programs had

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Indian Services Entrepreneurs Venturing Into Products: Suresh Shankar and Srikant Sastri, CoFounders of Crayon Data (Part 6)

Sramana: When did you start Crayon Data? Suresh Shankar: We formed the company in 2012. In reality we have only been functioning since October. That is when we moved into a real business and started to hire people. We are coming out now and we are talking to people now. We have made good progress

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rajat Paharia, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Gamification Leader Bunchball (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Is there any other application for your platform other than training? Rajat Paharia: People use it in the employee space. They use it for sales and sales performance, for collaboration, etc.