Thursday, July 23 – 269th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 269th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 23, 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 of your questions.

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Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: For how long did the legal business run? Jeff Mullarkey: We still work with legal today. We were predominant in legal from, I would say, mid-1998 to 2000. We expanded from there. When we started to shift our focus to security, we became non-vertical specific. We worked with everybody at that point. Sramana

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: CipherCloud CEO Pravin Kothari (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me actually double-click down. Our audience is very sophisticated. We’ve covered Palo Alto Networks for a long time and very intensely. We’ve covered FireEye for a long time. Let’s try to put it all in some sort of an ecosystem map. In your worldview, where does FireEye sit? Where does Palo Alto

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Bootstrapping All The Way: Infinitely Virtual CEO Adam Stern (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit more about what was in the product. Adam Stern: In the very early days, we were focused on terminal server environments and delivering Windows virtual machines to do web and SQL-based workloads. We did offer people the flexibility of building their own environments. They couldn’t build their own virtual machines.

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Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about that in more of a granular, step-by-step, chronological order. Who was the first customer in 1998? How did you get that customer and what did you offer? Jeff Mullarkey: We decided to focus on the legal community. This is not our business model today. RKON stands for remote connectivity. We

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Catching Up On Readings: Unicorn Club 2015

This feature by Aileen Lee on TechCrunch updates her Unicorn club analysis of the decade’s most successful US-based venture backed companies. 84 companies make the cut this year. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: CipherCloud CEO Pravin Kothari (Part 1)

Massive cloud adoption has added tremendous velocity to the speed at which business is done these days. However, it has also opened up security gaps. Listen to serial entrepreneur Pravin Kothari’s perspective on the subject. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company. Pravin Kothari: I’m the

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Bootstrapping All The Way: Infinitely Virtual CEO Adam Stern (Part 3)

Adam Stern: Because we are engineers, we are largely responsible for helping Tutor Perini build their infrastructure team. We worked with them to build their skill levels and ensure that the instructor was choosing the right people for his team, and even to help them with inter-political battles. During that process, we earned a lot

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