Anik Bose

Anik Bose is a General Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with deep Silicon Valley roots.

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Bootstrapping a Web Hosting Company to $60 Million: Christopher Aker, CEO of Linode (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Chris had many opportunities to raise money along the way while bootstrapping to a $60 million revenue level. Find out why he chose not to. Sramana: Chris, let’s start with the beginning of your story. Tell me where you are from and set the stage for

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 1)

If you are confused about the cloud file storing and sharing space, this interview with Vineet Jain should throw some light on the dynamics of the industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Egnyte. Vineet Jain: I’m the CEO and co-founder of Egnyte – a company that

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Thursday, July 10 – 222nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 222nd FREE online 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 10, 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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Catching Up On Readings: World Cup 2014

The World Cup 2014 is coming to an exciting close. As I had predicted, Brazil will be playing Germany in the semi final on Wednesday. But with Neymar out of the Brazilian team, the equation has changed somewhat. Fingers crossed! For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Steve Knipple, CTO of EasyStreet (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How does your customer base split up into those categories? What percentage of the customers are the big spenders? Steve Knipple: I would say that 50% to 60% are these larger accounts. These are people who want very large infrastructure. They have already scaled and they’re looking for that extra touch. Then about

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $15 Million in Venture Capital: Gravitant CEO Mohammed Farooq (Part 7)

Sramana: You have described an IT organization that is disjointed. You have a new model, IT as a supply chain. How do you actually solve the IT problem? What are you doing for a customer that makes the transition to IT supply chain? Mohammed Farooq: We discover what any of the business units have purchased

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From $3 a Day to Successful Entrepreneur: Tomas Gorny, CEO of Nextiva (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: When did you start United Web? Tomas Gorny: In 2008. Over the years, United Web became an investment vehicle for our and other businesses. What I’m really focused on and really passionate about is the business that we do now – Nextiva. Nextiva technically started its development on the product in 2006. In

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