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Building India’s First Billion Dollar Tech Company: InMobi Co-Founder Amit Gupta (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 11th 2014

Sramana: What is Naveen’s background? Amit Gupta: Naveen and I went to IIT together. While I started pursuing my career in software, he decided to join McKinsey in India. He then went off to do his MBA and after his MBA, he joined some startups. When he was looking to move back to India, he

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeetu Patel, GM of EMC Syncplicity (Part 4)

Posted on Monday, Feb 10th 2014

Sramana Mitra: Fair enough. We have talked about security, privacy, and hybrid cloud. Where do you see things going from here in terms of the open problems? Given those other trends and that there are multiple devices in the enterprise floating around, what are the open problems currently on your radar? Jeetu Patel: The first open

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Koolspan CEO Gregg Smith (Part 4)

Posted on Monday, Feb 10th 2014

Sramana Mitra: When you deploy in a Fortune 500, is the assumption that the phones or tables the Fortune 500 employees are using are owned by the corporation and they custom-build your chips and other applications on top of that into these devices? Gregg Smith: It can work in a couple of different ways. Yes, they

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Thursday, February 13 – 205th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Monday, Feb 10th 2014

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 205th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 13, 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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Are We in an Accelerator Bubble?

Posted on Monday, Feb 10th 2014

In a recent special issue on digital startups, The Economist writes: The exact number [of accelerators] is unknown, but f6s.com, a website that provides services to accelerators and similar startup programmes, lists more than 2,000 worldwide. Some have already become big brands, such as Y Combinator, the first accelerator, founded in 2005. Others have set up international

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Building India’s First Billion Dollar Tech Company: InMobi Co-Founder Amit Gupta (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Feb 10th 2014

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  [Also check out my Entrepreneur Journeys book, Seed India – How To Navigate The Seed Capital Gap in India] InMobi is probably going to be the first billion dollar global technology company built out of India. Read their thrilling entrepreneurial journey. Sramana: Amit, let’s go back to the very beginning

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Catching Up On Readings

Posted on Sunday, Feb 9th 2014

For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeetu Patel, GM of EMC Syncplicity (Part 3)

Posted on Sunday, Feb 9th 2014

Jeetu Patel: This kind of flexible hybrid cloud deployment model where security, privacy, compliance, and user experience are not sacrificed is going to be the major trend as applications get built. The cloud has made this third platform B where there are millions of applications available to billions of users. We want to make sure

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