Sramana Mitra: Your thesis on it was that it had to be manually kept up to speed? Rakesh Gupta: No, not manually. It has to be efficiently collected but certainly not in the fashion of crowdsourcing. It’s about collecting it in the right way and verifying it independently. Sramana Mitra: So you verify it other
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Sramana Mitra: In terms of your current business, what percentage of that is selling your own product versus selling other people’s products? Carl Mazzanti: 60% to 70% is our own. Sramana Mitra: But Infrastructure-as-a-Service, right? Carl Mazzanti: Let me answer your first question. Your first question is what percentage of it is selling your own
During today’s roundtable, we continued to celebrate the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Amit Gupta, Co-Founder of InMobi. My aversion to ‘Valuation Without Revenue’ Unicorns is well know. Amit started off by telling us that InMobi’s valuation is firmly anchored in revenues. Amit went on to discuss InMobi’s strategy for going global,
Sramana Mitra: Before we go to the post two-year bootstrapping phase, what did you achieve? You launched a website. You started getting customers. How did you get customers? How did the customers find you? Tim Hentschel: It wasn’t that hard in those days. The Internet was new. Blogs were just beginning to become popular. I
I am one of those people who doesn’t like bubbles. Right now, we’re experiencing a bubble in Silicon Valley with funny money driving weird, unproductive behavior. Some people want this party to go on. I don’t. Francisco Dao has written a poorly analyzed post on VentureBeat titled What will happen to Silicon Valley when demographics
Sramana Mitra: What data were you collecting and what was the process of collecting that data? Rakesh Gupta: Any marketing activity in any company actually falls into three or four different kinds of marketing. One is, people using the phone to reach people. People are using email to reach people or people are doing door-to-door
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