What Can You Do When You Fail To Raise Series A After “Graduating” From An Accelerator

I don’t believe in the concept of “graduating” from an accelerator, but since most incubators and accelerators use this as a framework, let’s discuss what entrepreneurs ought to do when they ‘graduate’ without funding. This, btw, is the plight of MOST startups around the world. MOST incubators and accelerators promise to get them funded. MOST

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Building a Secondary Ticketing Business From Spain: Ander Michelena, CEO of Ticketbis (Part 1)

Spain’s economy has been devastated, and it is really up to entrepreneurs to build it back to health. Anders Michelena is doing his part. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? Ander Michelena: I was

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Coby Sella, CEO of Sansa Security (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What part of that map are you playing in? Coby Sella: The most important part that Sansa is contributing to is the challenges around provisioning of secrets and assets into devices. Being the industry veterans for the last 15 years, we’ve been injecting assets and provisioning secrets across a wide range of devices for quite

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Abraham Gutman, CEO of AG Mednet (Part 4)

Abraham Gutman: We needed to figure out a way of using our infrastructure. It was the same infrastructure as for the eBay of radiology, but I needed to have a way of enabling people to send these images using just a software front-end. There were a number of things that you needed to be able

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Why Accelerators Are ‘Graduating’ Entrepreneurs Who Fail To Get Funding

There is a notion of ‘graduation’ in incubators and accelerators that I find amusing. Entrepreneurs are often expected to ‘graduate’ after 3-months. Let’s explore what this means … Out of the over 7,500 incubators and accelerators around the world, most consider ‘funding’ as the key success metric. As I pointed out in my Harvard Business

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 7)

Jory Lamb: In the middle of 2007, I moved to Denver to get things off the ground in the US market. In the early years in Houston, the company was a bit of a revolving door. It was really hard to retain the staff. Again, I made another error, for which I’m smarter today. I kept hiring staff, sticking them

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Coby Sella, CEO of Sansa Security (Part 1)

The Internet of Things (IoT) trend is significant, and will blossom over the rest of the decade. Imagine, however, with so many connected devices, how the security issue becomes critical! Let’s explore with Coby Sella. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Sansa Security. Coby Sella: I have been the

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Abraham Gutman, CEO of AG Mednet (Part 3)

Abraham Gutman: Pretty soon, I realized that that’s not how medicine works. It’s not arbitrage. This whole notion that people have that most radiology images are leaving the United States and going to India to be read, is absolutely wrong. In the United States, you are required to have three things in order to be

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