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Women Entrepreneurs: How To Deal With Sexual Advances From VCs

Over the last few months, we’ve read a number of stories of male VCs hitting on women founders. These situations typically arise when the founder is an attractive woman. My first observation about the issue is that a beautiful, charismatic, smart woman is extremely powerful. Often, young women who fit this description, are unaware of

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Danny Yu, CEO of DainTree (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: In the broad categorization that you just made, other than energy savings applications and then the off-shoots of energy savings, what are some of the other buckets of enterprise IoT? Danny Yu: How to think about this is look at whose problems are we solving. We can talk about technology and effectively the

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Seven Steps to Apply Design Economically in Startups

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Startups’ biggest challenge is designing a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) and using it to prove that a niche with paying customers can be profitably acquired. Seemingly, the more innovative the product is, the harder the initial early adopters are to locate and learn about their needs, wants and desires. For

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Building a Healthcare IT Company out of Georgia: Reach Health Founder Grant Kohler (Part 1)

Spun out from university research, Reach Health is an interesting case study in building a company around concepts like Telemedicine and remote healthcare. Sramana Mitra: Steve and Grant, I would love to have your back stories. Where were you born and raised, and in what kind of circumstances? What paths did you follow in terms

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Mike Burkland, CEO of Five9 (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: It doesn’t look like it would be terribly interesting to click-down into use cases because ACD routing is ACD routing, right? Would it be worthwhile to go into any kind of use case discussion here? Are there any variations in use cases? Mike Burkland: I would like to give you a couple of

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Women Entrepreneurs: VC Rejection Does NOT Equal Sexism

I am stating the obvious – or at least what should be obvious – that rejection by a venture capitalist does not automatically equate to sexism. However, of late, the media has started sensationalizing a lot of stories of VC rejection and transposing them as stories of sexism. These are two different issues, and the

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Danny Yu, CEO of DainTree (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Who else besides Enlighted falls in that pool? Danny Yu: We don’t compete with some of the companies directly. There’s a company called Digital Lumens that sells fixtures and controls. We, on the other hand, don’t sell the fixtures but sell the controls and the software. They sell this bundled solution where they offer their fixtures

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