211th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 211th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, April 10, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Building a Pre-IPO Company Over 10 Years: Centrify CEO Tom Kemp (Part 4)

Sramana: At that time, what were you proposing with your elevator pitch? Tom Kemp: At a high level, it is what we are doing now. The general idea is that as the world gets more heterogeneous from an IT perspective, it introduces complexity with multiple logins and difficulty for IT to control access. If you

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to predict the horizon, what time frame are we talking about in which decisions will be driven by data – more scientifically as opposed to approximation? Joe Shamir: It’s very hard to predict that. You have to be a social guru for that. Today, the phenomenon is driven from the

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  The Higher Education industry is going through massive adoption of online education. This conversation highlights the trends, as well as areas where Pearson is looking for partners. Sramana Mitra: Todd, let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the Pearson Embanet unit

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Crowdfunding Startups: Opportunities and Bottlenecks

There has been a bit of action for a while now in the crowdfunding world, and certain startups have been able to get themselves off the ground using the Kickstarter / Indiegogo style sites. By and large, these types of financings have gone to companies that are building physical products, digital games, etc. Fundings have

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Building a Pre-IPO Company Over 10 Years: Centrify CEO Tom Kemp (Part 3)

Sramana: There are a lot of companies today that are bootstrapped with very small amounts of capital. Some of them raise capital later and others don’t. The big change is that you can’t go public with a $20 million company anymore. Tom Kemp: No, you can’t. You have to be a lot bigger now. When

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Joe Shamir, CEO of ToolsGroup (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Sounds like your customer base is largely in retail and consumer packaged goods. Is that accurate? Joe Shamir: Yes, we are also in other verticals but this is the first verticals where you have this phenomena happening by nature of things.

Finding a Viable Monetization Model: wefi CEO Zur Feldman (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: It was hard, but you managed to raise the round. Was it based on the fact that you had a strong team that the investors thought you could figure out how to monetize this user base? Zur Feldman: I think it was a combination. It was a very determined team. It was clear

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