Thought Leaders in Online Education: Kurt Kirstein, Dean of School of Management, City University of Seattle (Part 2)

Kurt Kirstein: They’re looking to finish a degree or looking for career advancement. That’s the primary market that we serve. In that sense, we don’t serve freshmen. We don’t have freshmen that come in in droves every Fall. We serve people who are working and have decided that they have enough time and it’s a

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219th Roundtable Recording On June 12, 2014

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Roundtable Recap: June 12 – Celebrating Freshdesk’s $31M Series D Funding

Today, we’re immensely proud of Girish Mathrubootham and the Freshdesk team, as they continue to grow one of India’s flagship global product companies in the Cloud CRM space. Freshdesk has just raised $31 million led by Tiger Global and joined by Google Ventures and Accel. I first met Girish in Chennai in 2011, very soon

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Don DeLoach, CEO of Infobright (Part 4)

Don DeLoach: I’ll just give you a quick example. One of our really good customers is JDS Uniphase. They had an application that did network troubleshooting but it was based on a traditional database. What they found was that the increase on the load of the network required their customers to continually index the database,

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1M/1M Premium Company Freshdesk Raises $31 Million From Tiger Global and Google Ventures

We just did a roundup of the CloudCRM space, covering Zendesk’s successful IPO and predicting that the space is heating up, and more acquisitions will follow. Our premium company Freshdesk is definitely a key target! Today, Freshdesk announces its new round of funding of $31 million led by Tiger Global, with Google Ventures and their

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World Cup Soccer 2014: Predictions

I know I am playing a very dangerous game here, but let’s have some fun with the predictions, anyway … Here are mine, see if you agree with them, and feel free to add yours!

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Kurt Kirstein, Dean of School of Management, City University of Seattle (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. This discussion focuses on online education models that maximize engagement and minimize drop rates. Sramana Mitra: Kurt, let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to what you’re doing at City University of Seattle. Kurt Kirstein: I am currently the Dean in the

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219th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 219th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 12, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.