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In this series, I look at some of the ‘unicorn’ companies that Aileen Lee with Cowboy Ventures identified in her article, Welcome To The Unicorn Club: Learning From Billion-Dollar Startups. In it, she offered a list of companies that have had billion dollar exits, and analyzed some of the common threads. We will explore the early stage entrepreneurial
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Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 6)
Sramana: When did you join the company? Max Schireson: I joined just at the beginning of 2011. Sramana: Did you join the company as the CEO? Max Schireson: I joined as the President. I did that for a while and then I was appointed CEO. Sramana: What were the highlights of 2011 to 2014? What
Catching Up On Readings: Aspiring Female Engineers
This TechCrunch feature about the Square Code Camp looks at how this programming camp has helped aspiring female engineers. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. Tech Posts Electronic Arts Delivers on Next Gen Consoles Squarespace’s Silent Growth Automattic Wants to Take-Over the Web Credit Karma Sees Strong Revenue Growth, No Profit Yet
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 6)
Ray Martinez: The trend that we certainly want to see in higher education is the growth of options that will allow particularly non-traditional students in that category between 25 and 64 who are looking to go back to college and complete a degree to advance their careers further. That is a trend that we’ve probably not
Building a New Online Fashion Brand: Combatant Gentlemen CEO Vishaal Melwani (Part 2)
Vishal Melwani: Within a year, we garnered around 180 clients that were some of the world’s top urban wear brands. We ended up selling to a large trading firm within the first year. We sold to a trading firm based in Hong Kong. I was 25 and I had an exit under my belt. I
Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 5)
Sramana: What was it about MongoDBs database platform that was unique? You said that you believed for seven years that the world needed a new database. What did you see in MongoDB that made you believe it was the answer? Max Schireson: Fundamentally, I believed the world needed a new database that would do two
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: You have two kinds of mentors – student and course mentors. Then, the curriculum material is coming from third party? Ray Martinez: Typically, that is the case for most of our degree programs. Sramana Mitra: What about completion rates? When we talk about MOOCs – self-managed online learning – there’s a distinct problem
Building a New Online Fashion Brand: Combatant Gentlemen CEO Vishaal Melwani (Part 1)
I am a big believer in new, highly focused online fashion brands that can be built with a purely digital strategy. Combatant Gentlemen is a case in point. The company bootstrapped to $700K in revenue, followed it up with a $2.2 million financing round, and is on track to deliver $15 million in revenue this
