Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me how you got there. Vince Steckler: It’s basically a few things. When the company went into France, we started at the community side. The competition in France at that time had English language products, which doesn’t really go very real well in France. So we built a French language product. Since

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Brian Morin, SVP of Marketing, Condusiv (Part 4)

Brian Morin: Where we align with that trend is we leverage server-side DRAM so organizations can get more application performance. It’s not just a dedicated PCIE or dedicated SSD. Even within the server, that’s one layer below what we’re doing. We’re actually at the DRAM layer within the server. You can’t get any closer to

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Thought Leaders in Sales 2.0: Carol O’Kelley, CEO of Salesfusion (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are other core areas where you think marketing automation and Sales 2.0 is making a real difference? Carol O’Kelley: To where you can make systems work for the marketers or for the sales people, instead of the other way around. You can even look at an auto dialer that’s improving the efficiency

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Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 4)

Vince Steckler: It was very intriguing because it was a very engineering-oriented company. Of the 40 people, there was one person in Finance, one person in Marketing and Sales, and 38 engineers. They weren’t doing very good business because there wasn’t anyone paying attention to it. I actually joined there taking what people would probably consider

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Catching Up On Readings: Cool Vendors 2015

This report from Gartner lists cool vendors in the fields of Big Data, Internet of Things, Mobile and Wireless, and Cloud Security Services. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Brian Morin, SVP of Marketing, Condusiv (Part 3)

Brian Morin: As you know, virtualization is sweeping the landscape. Gartner has estimated 74% of workloads are virtualized right now. I think IDC is putting their forecast at 71%. Gartner has mentioned that by the end of this year, 80% of workloads will be virtualized. As a lot of companies are virtualizing their most I/O-intensive

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Building a Unicorn from Prague: Avast CEO Vince Steckler (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How much were they doing at that point? Vince Steckler: In 2008, they did about $18 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: This was all self-financed? Vince Steckler: Yes. The company had actually never taken any investment into its treasury. The company, by the way, is a Unicorn. We’re worth well over a billion

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Thought Leaders in Sales 2.0: Carol O’Kelley, CEO of Salesfusion (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The one that strikes me of all the things that you said is ad retargeting. One of the big trends in marketing today is content marketing. I would say, for us, that’s probably the number one kind of marketing that we do. We have been able to build a differentiated global brand just

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