How To Navigate The World of ‘Fat Startups’

In the Unicorn series, I have so far written about Tableau Software, FireEye, and RightNow. Of these, while Tableau and RightNow have followed Lean Startup principles, FireEye is definitely what I call a ‘Fat Startup’ that required a lot of early funding to get to market. While it is true that these days, we focus a lot more on lean

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Avinoam Nowogrodski, CEO of Clarizen (Part 1)

Let’s take a look at the future of cloud-based collaboration with Avi Nowogrodski. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some of your background as well as introducing Clarizen to our audience. Avinoam Nowogrodski: I’m actually a second-timer. The first company I built in 1996 was a company named SmarTeam. It dealt with collaboration for bill of

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220th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 220th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 19, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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Today’s 220th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, June 19, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

A Serial Entrepreneur Who Understands ‘Work’: WorkMarket CEO Jeff Leventhal (Part 6)

Sramana: In 2005, you raised money for OnForce. What did you use that money for? Jeff Leventhal: I invested in the team. I believe value creation for a business depends on the idea, team, product, first date of sale, cash flow break even, and exit. Those are the most important moments for an entrepreneur in

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Building to $10 Million in EdTech: Panopto CTO Eric Burns (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Are you assuming that there are three parallel streams being picked up? Where is the mixing happening? If you say there’s no post-production, is the technology determining how to do the mixing or which stream to use in the edited version or are you showing all three screens in different windows? Eric Burns: It’s

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A Serial Entrepreneur Who Understands ‘Work’: WorkMarket CEO Jeff Leventhal (Part 5)

Sramana: How did you handle the feedback once you realized the services groups were the ones who had a need for your product? Jeff Leventhal: We did a product iteration to configure the product more in line with client needs. That company became a $100 million dollar company within a few years. Sramana: Was that

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Building to $10 Million in EdTech: Panopto CTO Eric Burns (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: They basically asked you to become the CEO of this entity that was already funded? Eric Burns: I actually became the Chief Technology Officer because my competencies at that time were that of an engineer. I’m now the Chief Product Officer and I’ve done a lot of the CEO duties. We have this

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