Thought Leaders in Online Education: Katya Andresen, CEO of Cricket Media (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You were able to build a minimum viable product, start monetizing it right away, and then, scale it from there. Katya Andresen: Not right away. Most of the overnight successes have a five to seven years lag. Sramana Mitra: That’s my point. How do you finance five to seven years of development? Katya

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Thursday, July 31 – 224th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 224th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 31, 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

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Building a Fat Startup with a Massive Patent Portfolio: Cleversafe Founder Chris Gladwin (Part 6)

Sramana: If you were to pinpoint the key positioning points in your approach that are dramatically better than your competitors, what would that be? Chris Gladwin: To summarise it succinctly, they don’t virtualize the data. They make actual copies of data, which means the data inherits the properties of the physical world. It can be

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: San Francisco is very expensive right now but I don’t think it’s as expensive as London or New York. Peter Bauer: I do have some funny stories. During the interviewing process, there were some guys living in Spain. You realize that these are top class. You get talking about pay and ask for

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Katya Andresen, CEO of Cricket Media (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The concern is that it is complicated and expensive to build these programs. Then, if everybody wants everything for free, how do these businesses sustain themselves? That’s the real question that I’m extremely worried about. Katya Andresen: I think no one ever jumps to the opportunity to pay for something, right? If it

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Catching Up On Readings: Practice or Talent?

This Washington Post feature discusses the merits of a latest study that raises questions about the age old saying, “Practice makes perfect”. The paper published in the Psychological Science journal assesses the relative contribution of practice and talent to success. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Building a Fat Startup with a Massive Patent Portfolio: Cleversafe Founder Chris Gladwin (Part 5)

Sramana: How much money were you able to raise before you had revenue? Chris Gladwin: Something to the order of $10 million. Sramana: I talk with a lot of entrepreneurs and I have found that those who build capital intensive products requiring substantial capital investments were able to do it if they had either prior

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John Mullins

John Mullins is an entrepreneur, an Associate Professor at London Business School, and author of The Customer-Funded Business: Start, Finance, or Grow Your Company with Your Customers’ Cash (Wiley, August 2014).