Thought Leaders in Big Data: Damon Ragusa, CEO of ThinkVine (Part 1)

The dream of digital advertising being 100% measurable and attributable is a myth. In this story, we kick around the issues with Damon Ragusa, CEO of ThinkVine. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company. Damon Ragusa: I’m the Founder and CEO of ThinkVine. My background is

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January 15 – 244th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 244th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 15, 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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Building a Fashion Accessories Marketplace from London: Kiyan Foroughi, CEO of Boticca (Part 1)

I continue to be interested in how the fashion industry is slowly and surely finding innovative ways to leverage the Internet. Kiyan Foroughi has created a marketplace for fashion accessories that is scaling nicely and helping new designers find a customer base. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal story. Where

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Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 1)

Gaurav Dhillon founded Informatica, took it public, and ran it for 12 years before handing the reins over to Sohaib Abbasi, its current CEO. Five years ago, he founded SnapLogic, a company that has raised almost $60 million in venture capital and has tripled in revenue last year. Gaurav knows a thing or two about

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Roundtable Recap: January 8 – Kicking Off 2015 With Great Energy

We kicked off 2015 with our first roundtable, as always an international ensemble of entrepreneurs sharing their ideas, businesses, and dreams. Mobicip First up, Suren Ramasubbu from Thousand Oaks, California, pitched Mobicip, a parental control app for mobile devices that is already generating $500k in revenue. Suren also has a school-focused app, and some other

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243rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 243rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, January 8, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrapped Unicorns

Excerpt from my new Entrepreneur Journeys book, Billion Dollar Unicorns:   In the fall of 2007, I met Sridhar Vembu, CEO of Zoho, for the first time. At that time, no one had heard of him. He was flying under the radar of Silicon Valley. Sridhar had a small network management tools business that basically functioned

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Disinfecting Hospitals, Impacting Healthcare: Morris Miller, CEO of Xenex (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: They allowed you to publish the results as well? Morris Miller: They actually published it in the journal of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. It’s called ICHE. It was very well received and passed peer review. In March of 2011, when we really could begin selling in earnest, we had our prototypes. We sold

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