Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Koolspan CEO Gregg Smith (Part 1)

Does government spying freak you out? Read how Koolspan can secure your mobile device. Sramana Mitra: Gregg, let’s start with an introduction to Koolspan. What is Koolspan? How did Koolspan come about and what are you doing? Gregg Smith: Koolspan has been around since 2003 and I took over the business in the fourth quarter

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

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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How To Fund A ‘Fat’ Startup

These days, we focus a lot more on lean startups than startups that require capital to get going. The entire industry has moved away from the ‘fat’ startup category. However, infrastructure software, hardware, networking, chips – they need capital. Even in cloud software, to build complex technology like personalization and analytics requires some investment. How

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204th Roundtable Recording On February 6, 2014

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From Berlin, Bringing Art Auctions Online: Auctionata CEO Alexander Zacke (Part 5)

Sramana: What is your commission structure? Alexander Zacke: Our standard fees are 20% from the seller and 20% from the buyer. Our fees are negotiable, depending on the value of the consignment. The overall commission we receive will likely be less than 30%. Sramana: You said that you raised some money to build this company.

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Roundtable Recap: February 6 – First Time, From Barbados

You know how much I love seeing entrepreneurs from exotic places at these roundtables. During this week’s roundtable, we had one from Barbados. Approyo First, Chris Carter from Wisconsin pitched Approyo, a Big Data solutions provider in the SAP HANA eco-system. Chris is a member of our premium program, and came to us through our

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Tidemark CEO Christian Gheorghe (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Again, I’m going to ask you to lift yourself out of Tidemark and take a blank sheet of paper in your head. You are a serial entrepreneur and you have started many companies. You have a good understanding of how to look at your industry and find right spaces or gaps in the

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Building Fat Startups: Nasuni CEO Andres Rodriguez (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I just have one last set of questions before we retire. You are one of the few entrepreneurs I have interviewed who has roots in Latin America. We see entrepreneurial activity in the technology industry from Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs. Why has Latin America been slow on developing in the technology industry?