Bootstrapping Using Services from Montreal, Canada: Silanis CEO Tommy Petrogiannis (Part 1)

If you haven’t read my Bootstrapping Using Services book, you must. Here’s yet another case study following the same methodology. Sramana: Tommy, let’s start with your backstory. Where are you from? Tommy Petrogiannis: I was born and raised in Montreal, Canada and I still live there. Both of my parents are first generation immigrants. Watching

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Mall for Africa CEO Chris Folayan (Part 3)

Chris Folayan: Most of the financial transactions right now are based on purchasing of items. In Nigeria, for example, you can buy your airplane tickets on your mobile device. You also have new applications out there using which you can hail a taxi – something like Uber. Mobile payment is something that’s picking up. It hasn’t exploded as

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ulf Zetterberg, CEO of Seal Software (Part 7)

Ulf Zetterberg: It’s almost like a knowledge management system because if these self-service systems are built the correct way, an intelligent user can leverage this as a knowledge platform and perhaps do advance queries. It becomes almost like a dialogue. There’s a big debate in the legal industry about the automated lawyer or the IT lawyer and

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From eBay Seller to $20 Million Revenue Business

Excerpt from my book, From eCommerce To Web 3.0. Back in the days of Web 1.0, eBay kicked off the trend for online marketplaces in the world of electronic commerce. Since then, many ultra-light startups have mushroomed that focus on niche segments. Ultra-light startups have become a key trend in the e-commerce world and WatchUWant

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Bootstrapping a Language Product Company Using Services from London, Then Taking it Public and Scaling It to $450M: SDL CEO Mark Lancaster (Part 7)

Sramana: You have made a lot of acquisitions building your business. When did your rollup strategy start? Mark Lancaster: As soon as we floated. When you go public, you have to understand what the public wants. Most of our shares are held by large institutions. The London Stock Exchange is much different than NASDAQ. They

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Mall for Africa CEO Chris Folayan (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How do you estimate the size of that market currently? How much is the volume of e-commerce that’s happening? Also, what is the volume of cross-boundary e-commerce that’s happening? Chris Folayan: As far as volume of e-commerce happening across Africa is concerned, it’s well in billions of dollars at this point in time.  It’s

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Thursday, September 11 – 229th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 229th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 11, 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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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ulf Zetterberg, CEO of Seal Software (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: This is actually a good segue to my final question. Where do you point entrepreneurs to look for opportunities for building new companies? I think we’ve already started that discussion. If you take the base layer of unstructured data and then on top of that, you look at the different application areas. You

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