Bootstrap First, Raise Money from Kleiner Perkins Later: William King, CEO of Zephyr Health (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about where exactly in the chronology of the industry you were coming out of college? What did you do at that point? William King: I finished school in 2002. It’s an international business degree. Sramana Mitra: Where were you geographically at that point? William King: I was in Denver,

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2015: Ankota LLC, Waltham, MA

Billions of dollars are spent annually on avoidable hospital readmissions mainly for the chronically ill and elderly patients. This is primarily due to poorly managed transitional home care services. Ankota aims to remove this pain point through its software for managing care delivery for home care agencies.

Self-Financing an Artificial Intelligence Software Company: John Rauscher, CEO of Yseop (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What role did you play in this company? There were other people who co-founded the company and you came in later? John Rauscher: Yes, I came in as the COO. Then, I became the CEO of the company. Sramana Mitra: When the company was sold to Oracle, you were running the company? John

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Self-Financing an Artificial Intelligence Software Company: John Rauscher, CEO of Yseop (Part 1)

John has self-financed and scaled an interesting AI software company built on French technology, and would like to take it public. Very impressive execution! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? John Rauscher: I was born and

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Thursday, Mar. 12 – 252nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 252nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 12, 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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Bootstrap First, Raise Money from Kleiner Perkins Later: William King, CEO of Zephyr Health (Part 1)

Continuing on our theme of ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’, here’s William King’s story of building a robust company in the healthcare industry, now funded by Kleiner Perkins. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? William

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Building a Cool Technology Company from Chicago: Narrative Science CEO Stuart Frankel (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Fascinating. Other than the 50% of revenue coming from financial services, are there any other dominant sectors? Obviously, media continues to be one? Stuart Frankel: We continue to do a little bit in media. Our business with the US intelligence community is a fair chunk of our business today. We also have customers in

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Catching Up On Readings: Happy Women’s Day

A happy Women’s Day to all our readers! To celebrate Women’s Day, we bring to you Tech.co’s list of top 50 women in Tech dominating Silicon Valley.  For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.