Ten Lessons I Learned From a ‘Failed’ B2B Software Startup

By guest author and 1M/1M member Luis Montes Below are ten key lessons our team learned following an unsuccessful two-year launch of PatientDox – a cloud-based startup Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution for healthcare providers. It is our intention to not only learn from our mistakes but also help other tech entrepreneurs and colleagues avoid them.

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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 6)

Sramana: Let’s move our discussion forward to the product era of your company. What were some of the milestones in building that phase of the business? Mark Lancaster: We probably started very slowly on the software side. Over the first three years, in the 1999 timeframe, we were doing less than $3 million in software revenues.

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Mall for Africa CEO Chris Folayan (Part 1)

E-Commerce is blossoming all over the world. In this story, we take a close look at what is happening in Africa, especially Nigeria. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as Mall For Africa. Tell us about what you do and what’s happening in your world. Chris Folayan: I’m the

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Catching Up On Readings: IFA 2014

This feature from the PC Magazine looks at the best gadgets of IFA 2014, the European version of CES. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ulf Zetterberg, CEO of Seal Software (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You say it’s broader than that. The unstructured data problem in the enterprise is a broader problem, but I believe it’s going to get solved in pieces just like the contract problem will be solved at the contract lifecycle management level. Then there are other types of unstructured data in the enterprise. There

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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 5)

Sramana: The other side of that coin is that the UK does not have a lot of technology companies. VCs who want to invest in the UK are looking for strong companies and don’t have as many opportunities. Mark Lancaster: At that particular time, the company was all services and was just starting to develop

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Thought Leaders in Online Gaming: Scott Hartsman, CEO of Trion Worlds (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How many games have been funded on the various crowdfunding platforms? Scott Hartsman: I wish I knew the answer but I’m afraid I don’t. Sramana Mitra: Is it hundreds or thousands of games? Scott Hartsman: The order of magnitude, at this point, I would say is around hundreds. I would say there are

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ulf Zetterberg, CEO of Seal Software (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What does an enterprise account look like for you? Ulf Zetterberg: Enterprise accounts are very distributed and fragmented. It could have two or three fairly old legacy data sources. It could be that the applications have been there for five to ten years. The usability and transparency is very poor. It’s a big

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