Focus on Sustainable Growth, NOT Growth at All Cost

You may have read my recent piece Billion Dollar Unicorns: Box Struggles in its Public Avatar, where I discussed how this darling of the VCs is finding the public market rather unfriendly: Their stock is trading at $13.71 with a market capitalization of $1.65 billion. It touched a high of $24.73 soon after listing in

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Mike Ryan, CTO of Mobile Labs (Part 1)

Mobile devices, especially smartphones, are growing their footprints at an unprecedented scale. Alongside, the mobile app proliferation is gaining tremendous adoption. Mike discusses testing challenges against the backdrop. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the company. Mike Ryan: I’m the CTO at Mobile Labs. Mobile Labs is an

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Ray Rothrock, CEO of RedSeal (Part 1)

Ray Rothrock had a successful career in venture capital for 25 years, as a General Partner at Venrock. He was an active investor in Cyber Security. After retiring from Venture Capital, he now has taken the helm of ReedSeal, a 10-year old security company. This discussion focuses on network analytics within the Cyber Security space.

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Katie had a pharmaceutical sales job that she used to bootstrap with a paycheck for 5 years, before quitting to go full-time with her business, Unique Vintage. More stories like this can be found in my Bootstrapping With A Paycheck book.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Schmaier, CEO of Vlocity (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I don’t buy all of Kurzweil’s points, but there are certain things that I think machines can do better than humans. For example, if you look at medicine and diagnosis, if you really have all the data and images set up, I think machines would do a better job with diagnosis. David Schmaier:

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Catching Up On Readings: Robots Over the Years

This feature from CNN looks at the evolution of robots over the years. From bulky robots in the 1930’s, robots have evolved to sleek robots that can even emote like humans. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Schmaier, CEO of Vlocity (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: In general then, you’re saying that in all your use cases in all the different sectors where you’ve built solutions, it is either Siebel replaced or a custom-built replacement. David Schmaier: There are other providers we replace like Amdocs and other older, crummy systems. I would say it’s either industry on premise or

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: David Schmaier, CEO of Vlocity (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Essentially in all these large telecom accounts, what you’re replacing is Siebel? David Schmaier: No, it’s amazing to me that the prior product we built is still the market share leader. We replace Amdocs. We replace custom-built. I would actually say that custom-built is probably our biggest competitor. It’s hard to believe but

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