Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with Alex Bratton, CEO of Lextech (Part 1)

Alex Bratton is the chief executive officer of Lextech, a company that creates custom mobile apps for organizations to optimize their workflows. Alex has a BS in computer engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He founded and lead several successful companies in the past, including EmailRx, The Net Squad, and WebRPG. In this

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Building a Global Software Company from France: BonitaSoft CEO Miguel Valdés-Faura (Part 2)

Sramana: At that time was Bonita owned by the research lab? Miguel Valdés-Faura: Yes. Bonita was software that was owned by the lab, but it was using an open source licensing model. We would allow it to be embedded in commercial solutions as well. Sramana: What happened next? Miguel Valdés-Faura: After two years, I thought

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July 18 – 182nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 182nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 18, 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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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Rick Tinsley, Former CEO of Silver Peak (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The middle to the end of the 1990s was really the golden era. Rick Tinsley: Part of it was driven by the Telecom Act of 1996, because it wasn’t just enterprise, there were also large service providers and startup service providers who were buying a lot of new gear from new companies. That

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Building a Global Software Company from France: BonitaSoft CEO Miguel Valdés-Faura (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Miguel Valdés-Faura is the CEO and co-founder of BonitaSoft, a software company with the mission of democratizing the Business Process Management. Miguel founded the Bonita project in 2001, with the vision that BPM would become mainstream in every company’s IT portfolio. Prior to Bonitasoft, Miguel led

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with John SanGiovanni, Co-Founder and VP of Product Design at Zumobi (Part 4)

John SanGiovanni: That is a great question. That was an interesting snapshot of how you are using Facebook. But I would characterize that style of marketing in many ways as an inversion of what we are doing. What we would do is figure out a way to bring brand-specific content and present it organically to

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A Successful Corporate Innovation Effort in HealthcareIT: Bruce Johnson, CEO of GHX (Part 7)

Sramana: It does not sound like you are running a typical exchange or marketplace. The industry definition of an exchange or market place involves new business procurement or referral. Places like eBay are considered marketplaces. I don’t see that happening with your network. Bruce Johnson: Where healthcare is concerned there is a lot of additional

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Interview with John SanGiovanni, Co-Founder and VP of Product Design at Zumobi (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What do you charge and how do you charge for the Zumobi Platform? John SanGiovanni: On the publishing side we have two different business models. One is what I call co-publishing, where we do a revenue share with the publisher. This is great, because we have aligned incentives and objectives around getting high-quality

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