Bootstrapping a Credit Card Processing Business: Payscape CEO Adam Bloomston (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So were they paying you as consultant at that point and you would set up their credit card processing function? Adam Bloomston: No. In credit card processing, the way it works is we would set up one account and then have them for months and years as a client. Sramana Mitra: I see.

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Jacob Cooke, CEO of Web Presence in China (Part 3)

Jacob Cooke: What Alibaba has done is take that a step further and acted as the mediator between the transactions. Owner Jack Ma is one of the richest and most trusted people in the country, just the way Steve Jobs or Bill Gates are perceived in the West. What he’s done is add a level

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There’s a ridiculous amount of spam that comes through as well and that’s why that tool needs to be able to distinguish between spam and real customer opportunities where a client wants to talk to you. Larry Augustin: Yes, I agree, all of those are opportunities for innovation in the industry. I think,

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Bootstrapping a Credit Card Processing Business: Payscape CEO Adam Bloomston (Part 1)

Adam has scaled a very simple business diligently, systematically. Have a look at how. Sramana Mitra: I want to go to the very beginning of your personal story, where are you from, where were you born, raised, and what kind of background? Adam Bloomston: I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and studied at the University

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Jacob Cooke, CEO of Web Presence in China (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, Baidu controls all the search traffic in China and this traffic gets routed largely to servers hosted in China. So websites have to be hosted in China to be ranked for the Chinese consumers. That’s the reason why you have to have a strategy for China to do e-commerce. Is that the

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Thursday, Oct. 30 – 236th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 236th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 30, 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: Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Switching gears a little bit, I’m going to give you a scenario which I am experiencing based on our own process of sales and marketing, which uses LinkedIn centrally. We use LinkedIn community’s ability to market and sell subtly. I’m a LinkedIn influencer. Content marketing happens to be one of our primary strategies

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235th Roundtable Recording On October 23, 2014: With Jason Lemkin, Storm Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: You can find the dates and register for upcoming roundtables here. Book: Carnival In The Cloud.