Thursday, May 28 – 261st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 261st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 28, 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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Building a Technology Product Company From India: Varun Singh, Founder and CTO of ScaleArc (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I didn’t find studying engineering boring at all. Varun Singh: The guys at PC Quest were so exciting. It probably wasn’t boring, but I started working with people who were a little too exciting at that point in time. Sramana Mitra: At 18, you were in Mumbai working for Chip Magazine. How long did that

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. I see what you’re doing. Did you start this company in 2012? Josh Manion: 2009. Sramana Mitra: At that point, you self-financed this company based on money from your consulting firm, right? Josh Manion: That’s right. My wife and I decided that we would bootstrap it while we were building the technology. That started

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Do It For Me Analytics: Anil Kaul, CEO of Absolutdata (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’re noticing a trend that I have written about in the past: SaaS-enabled BPO, also called Do It For Me (DIFM) technologies. The interview discusses the trend in some depth. Other stories on the subject include our case studies of AthenaHealth, Sabrix, and LatentView Analytics. Sramana

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Building a Technology Product Company From India: Varun Singh, Founder and CTO of ScaleArc (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  There are very few true technology product companies out of India that have made it to the global market. Varun Singh founded one of them, ScaleArc. The company is currently headquartered in Silicon Valley and is executing well. Some of the others are: Druva, InMobi, and

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Catching Up On Readings: Internet Week NY 2015

This feature from TheStreet covers the Internet Week New York 2015, which was held from 17 May to 24 May.  This tech conference brings together the latest in internet trends, combining social media, hardware and even fashion. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a bit about how the product is architected. You talked about what other people cannot do. What is it that you do? How do you architect the product that you can do something different and better? Josh Manion: That really started from the inception. When we looked at solving the

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Entrepreneurship in Utah: Blackrock CEO Andy Gotshalk (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What was the thought process behind your taking this one on and not growing the other one? Is this one a higher potential opportunity? Andy Gotshalk: Yes, it has a higher potential. There’s a greater market for this technology. Another reason is that it is part of my desire and philosophy of where do

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