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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 6)
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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Katya Andresen, CEO of Cricket Media (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: You’ve taken seven years to build $17 million in revenue. That’s not a timeline that fits in the venture capital framework. The venture capitalists are looking to build hundred million dollar companies in seven years. This is what I’ve been really concerned about. For a long time, venture capitalists basically just decided not
Building a Fat Startup with a Massive Patent Portfolio: Cleversafe Founder Chris Gladwin (Part 4)
Sramana: You said you funded the seed round yourself. What were the milestones and accomplishments of that seed round? Chris Gladwin: I used not only capital but in the early rounds I was also able to use equity as a way to compensate initial employees. You can provide equity to people when you form the
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: We do a lot of business development work and customer service work. All of that is going into different mailboxes in my Apple mail, and then Bcc on to our CRM system which is getting stored in context related to the contact to whom that thread is related to. This is my workflow.
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Katya Andresen, CEO of Cricket Media (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I’m very interested in the business model. That’s one of the issues that we’re seeing in the Edtech industry. The business models are weak. Katya Andresen: I agree with you. It can be really hard to monetize a social network. That is not our model. Our model is that we have consumers –
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
Building a Fat Startup with a Massive Patent Portfolio: Cleversafe Founder Chris Gladwin (Part 3)
Sramana: What came next? Chris Gladwin: I started Cleversafe in 2004. Sramana: What was the core idea driving Cleversafe? Chris Gladwin: There were two aspects. First and foremost was the market. At that time, it appeared that the demand for data storage was going to grow rapidly and that has indeed been the case. It
Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Peter Bauer, CEO of Mimecast (Part 4)
Peter Bauer: My concern with that approach is it’s immature right now. It will be for a while. Since it’s unreliable, it’s also difficult to predict. You don’t know how information is going to be suggested to you. You don’t know what the underlying mechanism is. It can really be a distraction in the same
