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Raising Money From 75 Angels: Manmeet Singh, CEO of Dataguise (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 17th 2015

Manmeet Singh: I started thinking of better ways to secure data. That’s when I started thinking about data masking. Data masking can keep the data relevant and useful for non-production, and in certain cases, production environment also and take the personal PII and PCI values out of it. I found a couple of people who

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Thursday, Feb. 19 – 249th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 17th 2015

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 249th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 19, 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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Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 17th 2015

Sramana Mitra: What in your background made you think about Elance? Beerud Sheth: I think it’s actually connecting a lot of dots for me. Sramana Mitra: It’s always easy to connect dots when you’re looking back. Beerud Sheth: We actually approached it that way. As an Indian, you know that there are millions of talented

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Making Mass Customization Work: Jodie Fox, CEO of Shoes of Prey (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Feb 16th 2015

Mass customization has been the holy grail of the fashion industry ever since the Internet was born. Jodie Fox discusses why mass customization is so hard, and how her company is scaling a business that offers custom shoes. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were

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Raising Money From 75 Angels: Manmeet Singh, CEO of Dataguise (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Feb 16th 2015

I have never seen a company raise so much money from so many angels. It is far from standard practice in the industry, but Manmeet did it! Find out how… Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from and where were you raised? Give me the back story of

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Web 3.0 and E-Commerce Investment Thesis of 3 VCs

Posted on Monday, Feb 16th 2015

Last fall, we had three VCs participate in our 1M/1M roundtables to discuss their Web 3.0 and e-Commerce investment thesis. These interviews cover as well as build upon the themes discussed in my two recent books, Billion Dollar Unicorns and From E-Commerce to Web 3.0. If you are looking to build a Unicorn company in

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Founding Elance, then Webaroo: Beerud Sheth’s Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Feb 16th 2015

Beerud Sheth founded Elance back in 1998. At the time, the concept was new and path breaking. Today, with freelancing becoming a gigantic part of the global workplace, the company is playing a massive role in matching businesses with service providers. You can also read our interview with Fabio Rosati on Elance’s evolution. Today, Beerud

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Catching Up On Readings: ICC World Cup 2015

Posted on Sunday, Feb 15th 2015

Defending champions India started off with a comfortable win against Pakistan today in the cricket world cup. This feature from Economic Times looks at the men who will make a difference in this world cup. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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