Thursday, April 24 – 212th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 212th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 24, 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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Catching Up On Readings: 2014 Game Developers Choice Awards

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Identifying Customer Pain Through Consulting Services: Tealium Co-Founder & President, Ali Behnam (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You wanted to make the switch to a product company with a hypothesis that this is what you think is needed in the market. You wanted to switch off your consulting business and turn it into a product company in 2011? Ali Behnam: A big part of the product that we had built

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In what kinds of disciplines are you seeing the maximum online adoption? Is it engineering, nursing, or business? Todd Hitchcock: Traditionally, there has been a lot of growth in business and engineering. We see a tremendous amount of growth in healthcare professions. We see growth in degree programs that are associated directly with

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Building a Pre-IPO Company Over 10 Years: Centrify CEO Tom Kemp (Part 7)

Sramana: How did the business ramp from 2004 onwards? Tom Kemp: The ramp has been really good. We formed the company in 2004 and we did not ship product until 2005. We did over $1 million in our first calendar year. The next year we grew to $3 million. In 2007, we grew it to

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Identifying Customer Pain Through Consulting Services: Tealium Co-Founder & President, Ali Behnam (Part 2)

Ali Behnam: Early on as we got engaged in our analytics practice, we realized that there is a big need for help with tagging. A lot of customers were unsatisfied with their analytics implementation. The number one cause of that dissatisfaction was the fact that their implementation was not done in a proper way and

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: In these cases, are the universities providing the content and you’re providing the delivery framework? Are you also providing content? Todd Hitchcock: I’ll walk you through the component. After we’ve done the market assessment, we engage with the university and talk about all of the services that need to be in place in

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