Thought Leaders in Big Data: Jack Norris, CMO of MapR (Part 1)

MapR has innovated on the Hadoop Open Source building blocks to build a suite of products currently used by hundreds of customers across verticals. This interview double clicks down on some of the use cases, as well as entrepreneurial opportunities in the Big Data field. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with introducing our audience to MapR.

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Successful Pivot to $5M in Revenue from Chicago: Cohesive Networks CEO Patrick Kerpan (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: We are huge believers in content marketing. That’s the only kind of marketing that we do. Patrick Kerpan: We clearly lost some opportunities but for a small company, we would never hear from customers until they were POC complete. They’d go to Amazon. They’d use the free edition. They had tried it and

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Thursday, June 11 – 263rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 263rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 11, 2015, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/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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Bootstrapping an Evergreen Business From Oregon: Kirstin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. There is a trend among entrepreneurs wanting to keep running companies without seeking an exit. Certified Languages International (CLI) is one such evergreen company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where

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Catching Up On Readings: WWDC 2015

The Worldwide Developers Conference is going to be held this week in San Francisco and this TechCrunch feature looks at what’s likely to go down at WWDC this year, alongwith a few far-out wishes and some cold water for previously rumored possibilities. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Serial Bootstrapper: Oversee and Manage Founder Fred Hsu (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What do you want to do? You’ve had one successful exit. You’re in a financially comfortable position. You’ve built a second company that is also bootstrapped and very profitable. You’re still fairly young. What do you want to do with your business? How are you thinking about your choices and options now? Fred

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Successful Pivot to $5M in Revenue from Chicago: Cohesive Networks CEO Patrick Kerpan (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You said you pivoted and there was one product that you had to sell and the other product people wanted to buy. Talk a little bit more about how you proceeded from when you hit that realization? How did you move? How did you take advantage of the market pull that you discovered?

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Serial Bootstrapper: Oversee and Manage Founder Fred Hsu (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What are the milestones of this business? By how much did it scale? How fast did it scale? What kind of strategy did you follow to make it grow? Fred Hsu: What we wanted to do at first was to basically get a good sense of the market and establish a few key

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