Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: One of the things that’s obviously a huge benefit of this model is valuation. I imagine your Series A valuation is way larger than many others who would try to go raise money early. We did the story of Tableau. Tableau raised Series A at a $20 million pre-money valuation. They bootstrapped for two

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: PubMatic CTO Anand Das and VP Engineering Sri Gopalsamy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I want to ask you a specific question about the crossover between media and e-commerce. Let’s take the example of Mail Online for instance. This is a very big lifestyle publisher. Are you familiar with them? Sri Gopalsamy: Yes. Sramana Mitra: This is a big lifestyle site. They have hundreds of millions of

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Thursday, October 15 – 280th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 280th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 15, 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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Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Walk us through the process of building the company. You spun the company off at what point? Did you already have clients when you spun it off? Rohyt Belani: We did. We had about 20 customers at that point. It was a tightrope walk. As you can imagine, a product company in its

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: PubMatic CTO Anand Das and VP Engineering Sri Gopalsamy (Part 3)

Sri Gopalsamy: We have done a really good job over the years to build this platform where we respond to bids in real time within few milliseconds. We provide insights to our publishers within a minute. For all the impressions that are going through our platform, how much of them actually get converted? What’s their average

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Catching Up On Readings: Rules of Sharing Economy

About 80% US consumers are expected to be using the sharing economy by 2017. This feature from Entrepreneur.com looks at the dynamics of the sharing economy and what strategies businesses should follow to compete. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 3)

Rohyt Belani: Just to lay it out, Farm Stone was acquired by McAfee. I worked there. Then I worked at Mandiant, which was acquired by FireEye. The group I had founded with Aaron was also acquired in 2012. Along that journey at Intrepidus, we had already come up with the product idea for founding PhishMe.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: PubMatic CTO Anand Das and VP Engineering Sri Gopalsamy (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on the PubMatic context. Let’s talk about what you’re trying to deliver for your customers and what does Big Data bring to that process. Let’s get pretty granular and technical. Our audience is very sophisticated so you can get as interesting as possible in a nerdy way. Sri Gopalsamy: I’ll take

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