Best Design-Driven Startups of the Decade

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Successful startups can transform the way we look at the world and ourselves, as well as, create immense value and skyrocket to the top of the Fortune 500 list. Some of these startups were design driven, think: Apple, Nike, HP, Sony, and Nokia. However, few of these were actually founded

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Bob Dufour, President of Fusion (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s take maybe a couple of your customers from different sectors and walk us through the use cases of how they use your product. Bob Dufour: One of the things that’s common to all of our customers is that as they go online and as their business becomes more digital, price transparency increases

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Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Conversocial CEO Joshua March (Part 2)

Joshua March: I set out to build this business with no real mentors and no experience on how to do e-commerce. I managed to get off the ground and have a small, live business. I even hired a team to build a website. Then the financial crisis happened. The whole saga lasted for about a year and

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Thursday, April 2 – 253rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 253rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 2, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/8:30 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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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Bob Dufour, President of Fusion (Part 1)

This interview delves into a somewhat obscure aspect of e-commerce: margin optimization through non-core product recommendations. Quite an interesting subject in its own right. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some context about yourself as well as the company. Bob Dufour: My background is in a couple of different disciplines—statistics and analytics, direct marketing, and psychology.

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Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Conversocial CEO Joshua March (Part 1)

Josh March first built a digital marketing agency around social media before identifying the product opportunity for Conversocial. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised, and in what kind of background? Joshua March: I grew up in a relatively small

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Catching Up On Readings: Pao Vs. Kleiner Verdict

The final verdict in the Pao Vs. Kleiner Perkins case has come in. TechCrunch brings you all the coverage of the case. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. 

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Brian Dhatt, CTO of Borderfree (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: It’s still a whole lot of cans right now because the delivery rates are going down. The spam volumes are going up. The inbox is becoming a total nightmare. Brian Dhatt: It depends on your approach. I think there are emails that consumers value and still want to look at every single day. I think

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