Thursday, June 26 – 221st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 221st FREE online 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, June 26, 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 of

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Bootstrapping a Global Software Product Company Using Services From Denmark: Sitecore CEO Michael Seifert (Part 3)

Sramana: How long did the parent system integrator company have to subsidize Sitecore? Michael Seifert: Sitecore as a company has always been profitable, however, we would not have made it without our sister company. If we had a cash flow crunch, they could help us out. I think that if we did not have our

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Catching Up On Readings: Disruptive Innovation

This week’s New Yorker carries Harvard historian Jill Lepore’s sharp critique of Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen’s 1997 book the Innovator’s Dilemma, which popularized the idea of disruption. The critique relooks at the case studies in the book. An interesting read! For this week’s posts, click the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ajit Gupta, CEO of Aryaka Networks (Part 1)

Ajit Gupta is one of the world experts in the domain of networking, in general, and content acceleration, in particular. Prior to Aryaka, which he founded in 2008, he founded Speedera in 1999, and eventually sold it to Akamai for half a billion dollars. Here, Ajit and I discuss the future of the public and

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO of Clarizen (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You’re talking about inter-departmental bridging essentially. You are talking about CRM servicing the closing of the deal in sales and then you’re introducing a bridge into professional services on actually implementing the deal. There’s a project management and staffing that you’re now bringing into the CRM workflow. Avinoam Nowogrodski: Absolutely, you got it

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Bootstrapping a Global Software Product Company Using Services From Denmark: Sitecore CEO Michael Seifert (Part 2)

Sramana: What drove your decision to move back to Denmark as opposed to staying in Silicon Valley? Michael Seifert: There were several factors that weighed in on that decision. Personal relationships and family relationships factored heavily in my decision. I like starting business with other people and I had a larger social network in Denmark.

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Building to $10 Million in EdTech: Panopto CTO Eric Burns (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: That’s not necessarily the only kind of companies that VCs back. VCs also back enterprise software that delivers that kind of growth. In fact, I would say the IT industry’s bread and butter success have been from enterprise software – not from consumer software. Eric Burns: I guess the thing that may have

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO of Clarizen (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What you’re saying of course requires a lot of integration with other systems. If you’re talking about customer interactions, then you’re talking about the CRM system. Now we’re talking about some sort of a portal that brings together all of these integration elements? Avinoam Nowogrodski: Not necessarily, although you’re raising a very good point.

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