The Brutality of Reality

By Guest Author Soren Petersen A startup is about daring market and technology positioning followed by exquisite execution. Since even a bat can position itself, the part of the game one can control becomes all about the execution. Founders agree that design is the key to successful execution, and they proclaim that design contributed more

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Bootstrapping from Australia: Emagine CEO Dave Peters (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? What year were you thinking of starting a company of your own? Dave Peters: I started in 1998. Sramana Mitra: You were based in Paris at this point? Dave Peters: Yes, I was in Paris. Everyone’s got email and computing is starting, but we’re a

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Thursday, September 3 – 274th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 274th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 3, 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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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Jaffe, CEO of Prelert (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I think the data-driven approach is growing for sure. The follow-up question to that is, do you have direct competitors that are following exactly your approach? Mark Jaffe: There are a lot of competitors who are applying machine learning to solve the data problem. I couldn’t even name them. Since this interview started,

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Bootstrapping to $200 Million: Jorn Lyseggen, CEO of Meltwater (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What is the geographical center of gravity of the company? Is it still Norwegian? Jorn Lyseggen: The center of gravity of the company is San Francisco. We moved to the US in 2005. I personally moved to the US in 2005. My management team is distributed all over the world. The organization is distributed

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Catching Up On Readings: Rethinking Work

This feature by Barry Schwartz on The New York Times looks at how a we need to rethink work as a deeper sense of purpose can increase efficiency rather than an increase in compensation. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping from Australia: Emagine CEO Dave Peters (Part 1)

Dave Peters has managed to bootstrap a significant software company from Australia. The focus is on TELCO churn management, and the customer base is primarily Australian, Asian, and African. Read this interview to learn more of the nuances. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born,

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mark Jaffe, CEO of Prelert (Part 3)

Mark Jaffe: The challenge in building Prelert and this sounds like a simple approach, is learning normal behaviors from billions and trillions of terabytes of data per day and being able to do that accurately. It turns out to be really hard. That’s what Prelert is all about – having cracked the code to be able

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