Domain Knowledge Drives SaaS Unicorns

We’ve looked at a number of Unicorn companies so far: Tableau, FireEye, RightNow, Palo Alto Networks,Kayak, SuccessFactors, and Marketo. Today’s featured company is ServiceNow. Fred Luddy, the founder, was a classic nerd. After meandering his way through various companies as a programmer, he ended up as the CTO of Peregrine Corporation that built software for

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Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 2)

Sramana: What’s the name of your German friend? Brian Requarth: His name is Thomas Floracks. Sramana: So Thomas was doing the technical work, you were doing the sales and marketing work in this little web development business that you put together? Brian Requarth: Yes. He built the first couple of websites. I would sell the

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Nenshad Bardoliwalla, VP of Products, Paxata (Part 2)

Nenshad Bardoliwalla: Then I went to work for SAP where I met Prakash. I was running the enterprise performance management product line – planning, budgeting, forecasting, legal consolidation, and activity-based costing. I was deeply involved in acquiring companies like Pilot Software, OutlookSoft, and then Business Objects. After an extensive process of trying to rationalize the Business Objects

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Thursday, Oct. 9 – 233rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 233rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 9, 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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How Marketo Built A Billion Dollar SaaS Company

We’ve looked at a number of Unicorn companies so far: Tableau, FireEye, RightNow, Palo Alto Networks,Kayak, and SuccessFactors. Today, we look at Marketo. Marketo was founded in 2006 with the stated objective of building a high-velocity SaaS company focused on a critical (and then somewhat new) business process called lead nurturing.

Building an Online Real Estate Business From Brazil: Brian Requarth, CEO of VivaReal (Part 1)

We’ve done Entrepreneur Journeys stories on a few Latin American entrepreneurs like Marcos Galperin (MercadoLibre), Ricardo Villadiego (Easy Solutions), Rodrigo Teijeiro (Sonico), and Martin Migoya (Globant). In this story, we bring you Brian Requarth, whose scrappy maneuvering has resulted in a $10M+ business with $30M+ in financing – a tough act in Latin America. Sramana:

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ulf Mattsson, CTO of Protegrity (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the status of that capability in the Big Data industry today to be able to achieve that balance between protection, privacy, and analytics? Ulf Mattsson: Larger companies and companies providing Big Data distributions like Cloudera and Hortonworks are actually involving third-party security companies like Protegrity to fill the security gaps. For example,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Nenshad Bardoliwalla, VP of Products, Paxata (Part 1)

Big Data is all very well, but typically, the databases are full of dirty data. Before you can analyze accurately, you have to cleanse the data. Paxata has great insights to offer into the process. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Paxata as well as to yourself. Nenshad Bardoliwalla: Paxata is an

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