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Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Nov 21st 2014

Sraman Mitra: In those four years, what kind of revenues were you pulling? How many people did you have? What was the scale of the business that you had built? Harman Singh: We reached about a couple of million dollars in revenue. Sramana Mitra: How many people did you have? Harman Singh: We had about

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December 4 – 240th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Nov 21st 2014

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 240th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 4, 2014, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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: Chris Sullens, CEO of Marathon Data Systems (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Nov 21st 2014

There are sectors of industry that have made their entry into the world of technology very recently. Often, these sectors leapfrogged all the prior architectures and have come straight onto the cloud. Partly, this is because of the cost structure of prior architectures that they could not afford. The cloud is bringing many such industries

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck From Atlanta: Ingenious Med Founder Steve Liu (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Nov 21st 2014

Sramana Mitra: How much did you do in your first year? Steve Liu: I honestly do not remember. It’s been so long. Over the first few years, we quickly got to a couple of thousand users. During that time, we enhanced the product and started increasing the price. Pretty quickly, we got a lot of

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Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Nov 20th 2014

Sramana Mitra: What were the specs that they wanted? Harman Singh: There was a technology called Smile technology for education programs that wanted to deliver video-based along with some other content. These days, people would not know what that is. But in those days, it was really hot. We worked with professors and discuss what

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The Path I Chose Lets Me Create Art for Art’s Sake

Posted on Thursday, Nov 20th 2014

It must have been 1988. I was assembling my college applications that winter. One of the teachers in school whom I had requested a recommendation letter from sat with me in an empty classroom. “What do you want to do?” Mrs. Bhattacharya asked, curious what my infinitely fertile brain was cooking. I had a reputation

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 7)

Posted on Thursday, Nov 20th 2014

Sramana Mitra: I don’t agree with that at all. We cover e-commerce extensively. I think there’s going to be tons of new brands being built. It’s like how retail and specialty retail have evolved for decades and decades. There are always new brands and user experiences. I think e-commerce will continue to build interesting businesses

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239th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Nov 20th 2014

Today’s 239th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, November 20, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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