Building a Cyber Security Company from Israel: Aki Eldar, CEO of Secure Islands (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch the line of questioning a little bit to the story of your entrepreneurial story. Let’s go back to eight years ago when you and your brother left your respective jobs to start this company. You both had deep experience in the security domain. You went and talked to Shlomo

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Catching Up On Readings: Google I/O 2015

Google I/O 2015, the annual developer conference was held last week. This TechCrunch feature covers the major announcements from Google. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Building a Technology Product Company From India: Varun Singh, Founder and CTO of ScaleArc (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Very good. It’s wonderful to see that you pulled a hardcore technology product company out of India. Varun Singh: You asked me earlier where the engineers were from. They’re from Veritas and IBM. Sramana Mitra: It’s a good place to hire from. That’s a good thing about India right now. There are actually

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Building a Cyber Security Company from Israel: Aki Eldar, CEO of Secure Islands (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are the types of data and the sources of data that you’re securing? You talked about email earlier. Aki Eldar: We’re talking about any unstructured data. Unstructured data could be emails, files, or documents. Regarding your question about the source, it could be any source. It could be any application. It could be

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Do It For Me Analytics: Anil Kaul, CEO of Absolutdata (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If you’re doing pure product, the customer is supposed to run the product and build an organization around the product. In this case, you are building that organization and you’re doing the business process on behalf of the customer. Anil Kaul: That is correct. The only thing I would add to that is

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Character of a Business v. a Design Entrepreneur

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Entrepreneurs are the people who reinvent and revigorate our society in large and small ways and we know them by their actions. However, how do entrepreneurs with a business or a design background differ from one another and what are their personal traits?

Building a Technology Product Company From India: Varun Singh, Founder and CTO of ScaleArc (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You have good defensible IP. Varun Singh: Very good defensible IP. That started a few conversation with other VCs. I started a conversation with BV Jagdish from NetScaler. I was one of BV’s largest customers in India. I knew him through Net Magic because he was on the Board. He introduced me to Justin

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Roundtable Recap: May 28 – Shifting Mental Models

During this week’s roundtable, we started off with a discussion about the Funny Money Unicorn Business and what entrepreneurs need to be careful about when contemplating financing and navigating the current highly irrational market environment. MDbN As for the pitches, first up, Stewart Lowinger from Palm Springs, California, pitched Crescendo MDbN (Music Database Network). MDbN

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