Roundtable Recap: May 7 – Billion Dollar Unicorns With Clarabridge CEO Sid Banerjee

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Sid Banerjee, CEO and Co-founder of Clarabridge, a unicorn in the making from Virginia. My Time Blocks As for the pitches, first up, Suzanne Abate from Los Angeles, California, pitched My Time Blocks, a SaaS solution for time management and optimization

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Raising $20 Million from Angel Investors: Everyone Counts CEO Lori Steele Contorer (Part 2)

Lori Steele Contorer: I thought I would do it forever until I was asked to speak at a United Nations Conference where I had an interesting opportunity. The week that I was speaking at the conference in Switzerland happened to be the week that Arnold Schwarzenegger won the gubernatorial election in California. All of the best

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Successful Pivots on Product, Market, Business Model: Gigya Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Eyal Magen (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I think there are clear winners. At the time that you were describing, Facebook wasn’t the clear winner by any stretch of the imagination. Once you have clear winners with massive market cloud, then those are the options that are being offered by other sites. Eyal Magen: Right. What also happened is that

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258th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 258th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 7, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Serial Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh: Ron Bianchini’s Amazing Journey (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: That’s good. John Jarve is also an MIT grad by the way. Ron Bianchini: I know. Have you met him? Sramana Mitra: Yes, several times. Ron Bianchini: He’s on my Board in my third company now. Sramana Mitra: You raised a lot of money for Spinnaker. How long did it take you to

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Raising $20 Million from Angel Investors: Everyone Counts CEO Lori Steele Contorer (Part 1)

Here’s a ‘what not to do’ lesson from Lori, except, she didn’t have any choice. A story of resilience that is now turning a corner, preparing for much bigger growth. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of

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Serial Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh: Ron Bianchini’s Amazing Journey (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So this is the story of your first company. What happens next? Ron Bianchini: I stayed at FORE for about four years. In three years’ time, we were acquired by Marconi Communications. They acquired us and I stayed there another year. In 2000, I left. Having been a professor in the past, intellectual distance

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Successful Pivots on Product, Market, Business Model: Gigya Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Eyal Magen (Part 3)

Eyal Magen: We quickly found out that the best way to market our product is by working together with a small industry that provided content for Myspace pages. It was the beginning of the mashup era where you can grab a piece of code and post it on your page. This content could be a music

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