Roundtable Recap: January 30 – Value Proposition Needs To Be Laser Sharp

During this week’s roundtable, we had a somewhat heated discussion on one entrepreneur’s value proposition. What I love about these discussions is that they are all intellectual and constructive, not personal, and not gratuitously negative. Ethosh First, Rahul Deshpande from Pune, India pitched Ethosh, a multimedia production services firm that builds digital, rich media training,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe (Part 1)

This discussion focuses on the evolution of analytics in the cloud era. Christian Gheorghe is a serial entrepreneur and a domain expert in the analytics field. Sramana Mitra: Christian, introduce our audience to you as well as to Tidemark. Christian Gheorghe: My name is Christian Gheorghe. I’m the founder and CEO of a company started

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Building Fat Startups: Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez (Part 1)

Andres Rodriguez is a rare Latin American entrepreneur in hard core tech. In this era of ‘lean startups’, Andres has built a couple of ‘fat ones’ and in this interview, we discuss what he has learnt, and what he advises other entrepreneurs wrestling with the need to raise money to fund ‘fat startup concepts’. Sramana Mitra: Andres, where

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Make Your Mother-in-Law Your First VC

Sangeeta Banerjee, CEO of apartment society management software firm ApartmentADDA, grew up in a modest environment in Kolkata, India. As a child, Sangeeta faced a lot of ridicule for riding a bicycle to school, plodding through the immense, bustling metropolis that hummed with bus horns, zig-zagging cars, rickshaws, and scooters. She would ride her bicycle

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February 6 – 204th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 204th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 6, 2014, 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 straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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203rd Roundtable Recording On January 30, 2014

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Bootstrapping Eloqua, Crowdfunding Influitive: Lessons From Mark Organ’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 5)

Sramana: Was the high tech space your narrow market niche? Mark Organ: We actually worked hard to be very specific in the verticals we addressed. We became very good at micro-verticals within the application software space. The idea is to split the market into thin verticals and then get absolute dominance of those verticals. We

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Naveen Sharma, Chief Innovation Officer, Retail, Xerox (Part 6)

Naveen Sharma: Many of our current service offerings started off as XTIN projects. Take for example our Ignite offering, which was the result of  a bunch of researchers who had young children who were interested in how to use technology to personalize education. They went to K to 5 classrooms and observed how the teacher

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