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230th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 230th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 18, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

5 Ways Platform Eco-Systems Will Shrink

I found the recent Developer Economics survey results astonishing. VentureBeat published an article titled: 10,000-developer survey: 2% of coders split staggering 54% of all app revenue. Here are some snippets: A new 10,000-developer survey by Developer Economics says that 50 percent of iOS developers and 47 percent of Android developers are “below the app poverty

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Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Portugal: Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems (Part 2)

Sramana: Did the company go public? Paulo Rosado: We were on the path right as the bubble burst. We were supposed to float on the NASDAQ, but we missed the window by about two months. We had to delay the IPO and it never actually happened. I left the company in 2001 with the idea of

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Bootstrapping Using Services, Scaling Using Content Marketing: John Sundberg, CEO of Kinetic Data (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What do you have in terms of the content team? How do you run your content production farm? John Sundberg: We have consultants and developers. We have product marketing managers. Those are all internal people that we have. We probably have a handful of customers that have done a couple of things too.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio (Part 3)

Jeff Lawson: What Uber has done is, take the communication part of calling a taxi and seamlessly integrate it into the whole experience. Communication used to be a standalone activity. Now communication just becomes part of the workflow that you have when you use Uber. We see this in many software companies. In the transportation space

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Mompreneurs Love To Sell Baby Products

Excerpt from my new book, From eCommerce To Web 3.0. The e-commerce model of business allows women entrepreneurs to have greater flexibility in their lives. That is probably why we see several mompreneurs launching home-based businesses, and some of them scale to much bigger outfits. Of particular significance are mompreneurs selling baby products online. Here

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Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Portugal: Paulo Rosado, CEO of OutSystems (Part 1)

We’ve looked at a few case studies of European companies successfully turning themselves into global ones. SDL, Mendix, and Sitecore are just a few examples. In that select club, OutSystems is a key player. Sramana: Paulo, let’s start out at the beginning of your story. Where were you born and raised? What was your journey

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