Thought Leaders in Big Data: Vance Loiselle, CEO of Sumo Logic (Part 1)

Like most areas of IT, DevOps is going through its own reinvention through the intervention of Big Data. Let’s take a look. Sramana Mitra: Vance, let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Sumo Logic. Vance Loiselle: Just a quick background on myself. I’ve been in IT for the last 20 years. I

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M+ Business: Blaine Vess, CEO of StudyMode (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I want to know precisely what happened in 2008. What are the significant things that you did in 2008 and how did those play out? This $1.1 million, was there a concentration of colleges you were getting this from? Blaine Vess: In 2008, we launched in international markets and started the acquisition of

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Crossing the Desert, Hitting the Jackpot: Taboola CEO Adam Singolda (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Taboola had to sustain four years of zero-revenue, until it hit a million dollar revenue year in 2012. In 2013, their revenue run-rate is $100 million. It’s an amazing story! Read on… Sramana: Adam, let’s start with a bit of your personal background. What kind of

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Catching Up On Readings: Age of Acquisitions

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Simon Cooper, CIO of ServicePower (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you elaborate on that? Can you use an example to explain what you’re talking about? Simon Cooper: If you take a large retailer, for example, they may be using SAP as their primary system. Then, when they source work out to third-parties and they want to get data back in a timely

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Student Entrepreneur to $10M+ Business: Blaine Vess, CEO of StudyMode (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Was Chris working full time or did he take up another job? Blaine Vess: Chris was working full time on this business. He was also doing the contract programming with me. Sramana Mitra: You guys were doing contract programming. You had a job and Chris was doing the business?

Bootstrapping a Robust SaaS company from India: Rategain CEO Bhanu Chopra (Part 7)

Sramana: How do you calculate TAM and how much of the TAM is still available in the market? The OTA segment is relatively small and it sounds like you have saturated that segment quite well. Bhanu Chopra: There is not any publicly available data regarding the OTA segment. If you look at the top OTAs,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Simon Cooper, CIO of ServicePower (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about two or three customers and really double-click down into how they’re using your product. Simon Cooper: If we look at the US, we have a Tier One retailer that uses the application. They have quite a substantial field service workforce that is out on the road every day. They use the

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