Thursday, September 18 – 230th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 230th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 18, 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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Bootstrapping Using Services from Montreal, Canada: Silanis CEO Tommy Petrogiannis (Part 6)

Sramana: It sounds like the legitimacy of e-signatures for legal purposes really changed the entire direction of the company. Tommy Petrogiannis: That really changed us as a company because we moved from within the walls of an organization to outside the walls of an organization. We gave them the ability to interact with customers without

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Bootstrapping Using Services, Scaling Using Content Marketing: John Sundberg, CEO of Kinetic Data (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: If I got this right, you were drawn into this Remedy projects and as you were working on these, you saw the opportunity to build framework around the various Remedy problems that you were seeing and be able to productize what you were doing as projects essentially. John Sundberg: I see it a

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Catching Up On Readings: Disrupt SF 2014

The TechCrunch Disrupt SF ended early last week after three days of pitches from 26 companies. This TechCrunch article covers the results of the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Secure-24 Co-CTOs, Scott McIsaac and Sean Donaldson (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If you look around from your vantage point, what’s happening? What are the trends that you are picking up or trends that you’re anticipating right now? Scott McIsaac: In today’s world, we see a lot of business being pushed in the direction of the cloud. Businesses are realizing that they can focus on

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Montreal, Canada: Silanis CEO Tommy Petrogiannis (Part 5)

Sramana: Outside of the DoD contracts, where did you get the remainder of your revenue? Tommy Petrogiannis: It came from industries that were regulated and needed operational efficiencies. This included pharmaceuticals, aerospace manufacturing, and lots of departmental sales for paperwork efficiencies. After the DoD, manufacturing was our next largest vertical followed by aerospace manufacturing. We knew

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Bootstrapping Using Services, Scaling Using Content Marketing: John Sundberg, CEO of Kinetic Data (Part 1)

You have heard me discuss bootstrapping using services quite a lot. Here, we also take on another important key strategy for customer acquisition: content marketing. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some background. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised and in what kind of circumstances? John Sundberg: I’m currently in St. Paul,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Secure-24 Co-CTOs, Scott McIsaac and Sean Donaldson (Part 4)

Scott McIsaac: It comes down to having that experience and application knowledge. We don’t get into the functional support of the application. For example with SAP, the business process side is still handled by the customers. They handle all the workflows within the system and all the intricacies there. We typically manage the bases level, which

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