Thought Leaders in Online Education: Mike Pellerin, Director, Enterasys University (Extreme Networks) (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Enterasys is experimenting with a concept of corporate massive open online courses (MOOCs). Interesting concept. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Let us start by setting some context. Tell our audience about yourself and Enterasys. Then, we’ll take it from there. Mike Pellerin: Enterasys has recently been acquired

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Building an Open Source Software Company Around Cassandra, Seed-Funded by RackSpace: Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, Founders of DataStax (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I am going to probe you on a couple of different points. Did you start DataStax while you were still inside of Rackspace? Jonathan Ellis: No. We were working on Cassandra at Rackspace but we started DataStax, originally called Riptano, after leaving Rackspace. Sramana Mitra: So, by the time you left Rackspace and

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Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 4)

Sramana: Where you trying to develop another company after you returned to India or did you decide to go back into services work? Manish Sharma: I continued forward with my goal of establishing a product company. I finally came up with a product idea in the AI space which had been a passion of mine

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Jim Donohue, Chief Product Officer, Cengage Learning (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: How do you see films come into this picture? For example, one of the hit films of last year was Lincoln, right? It was a really well done American History film. How do you see something like that impacting the teaching of History, for instance? Jim Donohue: It’s not just films. That sort of

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January 16 – 201st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 201st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 16, 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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Building an Open Source Software Company Around Cassandra, Seed-Funded by RackSpace: Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, Founders of DataStax (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is an interesting story of how an open source software company built around Cassandra was incubated by RackSpace and has grown to $5 million in revenue. Founded by engineers Jonathan Ellis and Matt Pfeil, the interview traces not only the successes of their journey but

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200th Roundtable Recording On January 9, 2014

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Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 3)

Sramana: So you partnered with Informix? Manish Sharma: Yes, we partnered with Informix. They could not meet the deal requirements without us because they were a product provider, not a systems integrator. The database was a small part of the overall project. We had to submit our own credentials to win the bid. We worked

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