Long Journey in Healthcare: Canadian Entrepreneurs Matthew Sappern and Emily Hamilton of PeriGen (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When you talk about timing, what year are we talking about? Emily Hamilton: Back in mid-1990s. Sramana Mitra: So you got a bunch of grants to get this thing off the ground. Emily Hamilton: It wasn’t exactly a grant in the traditional sense. This was money which was intended to foster research, which

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October 8 – 279th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 279th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 8, 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 Big Data: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a bit about adoption. The concepts and the ideas that you’re talking about have been around. After doing three startups, I did 10 years of consulting before I started One Million by One Million. Even in the early 2000’s, there were companies that called themselves knowledge management companies that did

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What Are Some Misconceptions About Bootstrapping A Business?

Big time misconceptions: 1. That bootstrapping is only for losers that can’t get investors. 2. That bootstrapping is a short term band-aid to hold you and your business together. 3. That bootstrapping is always painful and everyone around you must share in that pain. In reality, bootstrapping is a viable and prudent strategy for most

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Bootstrapping to $15 Million: Ernie Bray, CEO of ACD (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In 2005, you were at about $1.2 million in revenue. In 2009, you were already on Inc. 5000. What was the revenue ramp? Ernie Bray: In 2009, we went to $8 million. Sramana Mitra: Where are you now? Ernie Bray: We’re pushing towards $15 million. We also made Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500. We

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Roundtable Recap: October 1 – Equity Crowdfunding From Customers

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Daniel Cane, CEO and co-founder of Modernizing Medicine. Dan has followed a unique and tremendously effective strategy of raising equity crowdfunding from his customers, about 100 of them, and reflects on how well it has worked for him. LeadCrunch As for the pitches, first up, Olin

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 1)

Knowledge management has been around. What has changed? Read on for more discussion on the subject. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Brainspace. Dave Copps: I’m the CEO of Brainspace. We’re a software company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. We built a large-scale machine learning platform that is

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Long Journey in Healthcare: Canadian Entrepreneurs Matthew Sappern and Emily Hamilton of PeriGen (Part 1)

Perigen is an amalgamation of a couple of different companies. This story relates how the entrepreneurs navigated a long journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by telling us a little bit about your personal background. I’d like to do that with both of you since you are co-founders. Matthew Sappern: Just for clarity’s sake, Emily developed

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