Bootstrapping a Global Software Product Company Using Services From Denmark: Sitecore CEO Michael Seifert (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  European software companies seldom reach global scale. Sitecore has not only reached global scale, but is competing with Oracle, Adobe, IBM, and Salesforce.com. Read how they have navigated the market. Sramana: Michael, where are you from? What is the background to your story? Michael Seifert: I

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Building to $10 Million in EdTech: Panopto CTO Eric Burns (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of other vendors that you compete with, whom do you see in deals? Eric Burns: Initially, we were quite afraid of what seemed like the incumbent player in the lecture capture market in the higher education, which is a company called Tegrity. I think it’s safe to say that we badly

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO of Clarizen (Part 2)

Avinoam Nowogrodski: What we have created in Clarizen is collaboration in context. It’s in context of getting work done and promoting work. If I would just use another term, which is a bit more complex because I come from the area of product lifecycle management, it’s all about the work-life cycle management collaboration. You need

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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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220th Roundtable Recording On June 19, 2014

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A Serial Entrepreneur Who Understands ‘Work’: WorkMarket CEO Jeff Leventhal (Part 7)

Sramana: So you built WorkMarket to help freelancers? Jeff Leventhal: WorkMarket is a solution that allows people to manage freelance at scale. If your company is spending money on a thousand freelancers a day because your company has committed millions to that strategy, WorkMarket is a solution that will allow you to find people and

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Roundtable Recap: June 19 – Please Articulate Your Investment Thesis

During today’s roundtable, we listened to two pitches. Virtual Truck Project First up, Surojit Mukerji from Gujarat, India, pitched his Virtual Truck Project, a Telematic solution for truck owners to track and manage their fleets. The company has a couple of larger competitors, and among other things, needs to clarify their competitive strategy. Whether the

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Building to $10 Million in EdTech: Panopto CTO Eric Burns (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So roughly speaking, it is end of 2007. How much venture capital did you raise at that point and how long did it take you to get the first product out of the door? Eric Burns: We had an extreme advantage here, which is that we have the opportunity to research that market

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