15 Private Unicorns I Am Tracking

We’ve looked at a number of Unicorn companies in Billion Dollar Unicorns. We will look at more. Today, however, I want to share with you a list of technology companies that I am tracking that have the potential of becoming billion dollar public companies, or getting acquired for over a billion dollars. In other words,

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Mass Customization in Online Fashion E-Commerce: Indochino CEO Kyle Vucko (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In 2010, you have $4 million more capital. What does the competitive landscape look like at this point? Are you starting to see competitors? Kyle Vucko: Not really. We did see some smaller competitors who came and went. The competition landscape was pretty bare. Sramana Mitra: As a result, does that mean that

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Larry Augustin, CEO of SugarCRM (Part 1)

We covered John Roberts’ Entrepreneur Journeys story in December of 2008. In this story, we explore the cloud CRM industry’s evolution with Larry Augustin, who replaced John as CEO on May 6, 2009. Sramana Mitra: As you know, we have covered SugarCRM quite a bit before. So our audience does start off with some knowledge

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The Problems With Incubators And How To Solve Them

Excerpt from my book, The Other 99% (Entrepreneurs). There is a very real knowledge gap in the early stage start-up game, on both sides of the table. First-time entrepreneurs lack the seasoning to captain a steady ship through turbulent waters. Inexperienced friends and family (and, increasingly, crowdsourced investors) lack the ability to gauge the viability

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How To Monetize a Q&A Site: Answers.com CEO David Karandish (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: In this strategy of being the a customer service portal for brands, the business model around that is not exactly an advertising business model; it’s more a SaaS business model, isn’t it? David Karandish: That’s where half of the revenue comes from, but we leveraged the Advertising.com business model to build out the

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Mass Customization in Online Fashion E-Commerce: Indochino CEO Kyle Vucko (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you go about doing that? Is this your own factory or a third-party that you built a relationship with? That is the cornerstone piece of the delivery part of this business, right? Kyle Vucko: There’re so many other pieces that go into delivering. Sramana Mitra: Acquisition and all that is regular

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Bootstrapping a $175 Million Business with Services: TEOCO CEO Atul Jain (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What percentage of the revenue would you say is BPO services? Atul Jain: We are mostly a software company. When you say professional services, do you mean to say installation and implementation kind of stuff? Sramana Mitra: No, anything that is custom where you’re not selling software. Atul Jain: We don’t do any

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Thursday, October 23 – 235th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 235th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 23, 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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