Serial Entrepreneur Building a Luxury Business: Trevor Traina, CEO of IfOnly (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the business idea that you were playing with at that point? Trevor Traina: The business became Compare.net. Sramana Mitra: Comparative shopping online? Trevor Traina: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: What year are we talking about now? Trevor Traina: 1996. Sramana Mitra: What happened? How did that go? Trevor Traina: At that time, all

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Bootstrapping a $25 Million E-Commerce Company: Saatva Co-Founder Ricky Joshi (Part 1)

I have spoken with many VCs who are looking or e-commerce companies that can scale at venture pace, which is hard to achieve. On the other side of the spectrum, however, the bootstrapped e-commerce companies are going gangbusters! Saatva is one such and a terrific company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with your personal back story.

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Unicorn in The Making: Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about what made that a successful transition? What did you do as a founder? What did your new CEO do as the incoming CEO? Obviously, it has been a successful transition since you’re working with this person for a while. Ross Mason: A few things. Bringing someone new in is

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January 8 – 243rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 243rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 8, 2015, 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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Serial Entrepreneur Building a Luxury Business: Trevor Traina, CEO of IfOnly (Part 1)

Trevor has built several businesses and is now working in a segment that he naturally aligns with—luxury experiences. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? Trevor Traina: I was born and raised in San Francisco. On my father’s side, I’m

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tom Hogan, CEO of Kony (Part 7)

Sramana MItra: The healthcare industry has been the most active in the history of the healthcare IT industry. It’s really moving and active right now. I anticipate that, within the next decade, the healthcare IT penetration is going to be humongous. There’s going to be huge changes. Tom Hogan: I agree. I have a theory for why

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Unicorn in The Making: Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Do you have drivers that a lot of people need that you’re making significant business out of? Have you seen that? Ross Mason: We certainly see clusters around certain SaaS applications. Obviously, Salesforce is leading the charge on enterprise. They really opened up that market. As such, we have a very strong relationship

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Eldad Farkash, CTO of Sisense (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Where would you point entrepreneurs to look for new problems to solve a new startup to build now? Eldad Farkash: If you’re coming from a scientific background, I would say focus either on deep learning or NPI. These would be the two major topics I would focus on if you’re a scientific kind

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