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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tom Hogan, CEO of Kony (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Dec 20th 2014

Sramana Mitra: What is your solution suite? Do you have a platform, and then you deliver applications on top of that? How do you bring your product to market? Tom Hogan: That’s a great question. We have three paths. I’m going to share the three with you in the reverse order of a conversation I

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Unicorn in The Making: Ross Mason, Founder of MuleSoft (Part 1)

Posted on Saturday, Dec 20th 2014

Ross bootstrapped Mulesoft with a paycheck and also with services. Now, the company has raised over $130 million—the last round at an $800 million valuation. Very interesting story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were your born and raised? Ross Mason: I was born

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Aiming to Dominate Real Estate Brokerage: Robert Reffkin, CEO of Urban Compass (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Dec 20th 2014

Sramana Mitra: I think that’s only partially true because the level at which valuations are going out of control right now is way beyond the kind of rational justification that you presented. Robert Reffkin: Uber has raised $40 billion. You can say that’s a huge valuation. If a majority of cars in the country are

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Tom Hogan, CEO of Kony (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Dec 19th 2014

Enterprise Mobility is a major trend. Here, we catch up with Tom Hogan, CEO of Kony, a leader in the space. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about yourself as well as Kony. Tom Hogan: I’ll be brief with myself. I’ve been in the industry for 33 years in all. This is the smallest organization I’ve been

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Building an Exciting Healthcare IT Company From Chicago: LaunchPoint CEO Terry Ryan (Part 7)

Posted on Friday, Dec 19th 2014

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else from your strategic thought process that you want to share that has helped you achieve what you’ve achieved so far? Terry Ryan: I would just like to touch for a moment on VCs, private equity, and growth capital, I’ve done all the above. When people talk to me about that

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242nd Roundtable Recording On Dec. 18, 2014: With David Hornik, August Capital

Posted on Friday, Dec 19th 2014

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: You can find the dates and register for upcoming roundtables here. Book: Carnival In The Cloud.

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Aiming to Dominate Real Estate Brokerage: Robert Reffkin, CEO of Urban Compass (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Dec 19th 2014

Sramana Mitra: You said you raised a lot of money. What’s the total amount of financing you raised? Robert Reffkin: $73 million. Sramana Mitra: Why have you raised so much money? What have you done with that money? Robert Reffkin: We raised $73 million because we wanted to hire the best people we possibly could.

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Roundtable Recap: December 18 – Carnival In The Cloud With David Hornik, August Capital

Posted on Thursday, Dec 18th 2014

During today’s roundtable, as part of the launch event for my book, Carnival In The Cloud, we had Dave Hornik as our guest. Dave, as some of you may know, shocked the industry about 10 years back by being the first VC to start blogging. His peers were aghast! Well, clearly, he saw something before

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