Building a Healthcare Company from Rhode Island: ShapeUp CEO Rajiv Kumar (Part 3)

Sramana: Is that when you started ShapeUp as a for-profit company? Rajiv Kumar: I got together with one of my colleagues, Dr. Brad Weinberg, who was in the same program as I was. He was a technologist and a self-taught computer programmer. He decided to help me build a software platform that would organize this

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Serial Entrepreneur, Self-Financing to $50 Million: GoGrid CEO, John Keagy (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: So you have multiple technology stacks available as a service from your company for people looking for hosted Big Data platforms and you work with these platform vendors to offer them as a service.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sher Downing, Executive Director of Online Academic Services at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What about examining and testing? Especially, where you’re running full-fledged online programs, how do you handle testing? Sher Downing: We have actually been trying out a number of products in the last year and have purposely focused on avoiding issues of plagiarism and any type of cheating. We pride ourselves, on carrying the

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209th Roundtable Recording On March 20, 2014

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Building a Healthcare Company from Rhode Island: ShapeUp CEO Rajiv Kumar (Part 2)

Sramana: What time-frame are we talking about when you were conceptualizing ShapeUp? Rajiv Kumar: This was in 2005. Sramana: That is when social media was starting to get introduced to the world at scale. Rajiv Kumar: It was. Facebook was created in 2004. The concept behind ShapeUp was less about technology and more about approach.

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Serial Entrepreneur, Self-Financing to $50 Million: GoGrid CEO, John Keagy (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In terms 0f the complexity of the R&D, how much of that was predicated on being able to get the right technical talent? There’s definitely a truth – not just a myth – that it’s harder for self-financed companies to attract the top talent. Everybody’s looking at which VC is funding the company

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Thursday, March 27 – 210th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 210th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 27, 2014, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 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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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sher Downing, Executive Director of Online Academic Services at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch to a different topic. Our audience is entrepreneurs. Talk to me about what you are doing in the realm of entrepreneurship education – first at the undergraduate level and then at the graduate level. Sher Downing: We currently have an undergraduate degree in Entrepreneurship and that includes coursework that

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