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Catching Up On Readings: The Changing Seattle Tech Scene

Posted on Sunday, Apr 26th 2015

This feature from TechCrunch looks at the dramatic change in Seattle’s tech scene over the past ten years. The home-grown industry in Seattle now has a sizeable number of companies not only at the $100 billion valuation, but throughout the $10 billion, $1 billion, or $100 million valuation ranges. For this week’s posts, click on

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Competing with Box and Dropbox: Soonr Co-Founder and CTO Steven Boye (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 25th 2015

Sramana Mitra: How many telcos do you have as customers today? Steven Boye: I think we have three today. AT&T is the biggest. What we’ve learned is that telcos are hard to work with. They are good once they engage, but it’s really a long sales cycle. In the years since, several things have happened.

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Colorado: InteliSecure CTO Chuck Bloomquist (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 25th 2015

Sramana Mitra: What is your plan going forward? You’re about $16 million. The market has appetite for what you bring to the table. Is it just basically doing more of the same thing? Is that an accurate summary of what your game plan is? Chuck Bloomquist: I definitely want to continue and expand in different

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April 30 – 257th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Apr 24th 2015

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 257th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 30, 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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256th Roundtable Recording On April 23, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Roman Stanek, CEO & Founder, GoodData

Posted on Friday, Apr 24th 2015

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

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Competing with Box and Dropbox: Soonr Co-Founder and CTO Steven Boye (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Apr 24th 2015

Sramana Mitra: That brings us to what? Steven Boye: Now we come up to 2006. We actually got funding from a company called Clearstone Venture Partners in LA. During 2006 to 2008, we also got Intel Capital and Cisco as strategic investors. Now, we started getting real money to build the company. Sramana Mitra: What was

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Don’t Pivot Too Soon: ADARA Co-Founder and CTO Charles Mi (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Apr 24th 2015

Sramana Mitra: They’re all doing this. They’re all part of your marketplace now. Charles Mi: Yes. ADARA marketplace contains a lot of the travel technology companies, rental cars, and hotels. They have 100% control over how the data is being used. By putting transparency and control in place, the data suppliers have a lot of

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Colorado: InteliSecure CTO Chuck Bloomquist (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Apr 24th 2015

Sramana Mitra: I’m asking a very specific question. Maybe I should ask you a broader question. Is this still a services company or is this a product company now? Chuck Bloomquist: We are a services company. Products that we sell are developed by a variety of different organizations – Symantec, RSA, and Cisco. They have

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