Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 2)

Rohyt Belani: Here I am on a student visa with eight weeks to go till graduation, and I was starting to scramble for a job. Then, I just ran into a job. I ran into a gentleman, literally, in the hallways of Carnegie-Mellon. I was introduced via email to him. He was an Adjunct Professor. He

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Raymond D. “Ray” Zinn is an inventor, entrepreneur, and the longest serving CEO of a publicly traded company in Silicon Valley. He is best known for creating and selling the first Wafer Stepper (an industry standard piece of semiconductor manufacturing equipment), and for co-founding semiconductor company, Micrel (acquired by Microchip in 2015), which provides essential

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How to Transform a Region’s Economy

Can the success of only a few startups revitalize an entire region? And, if it can, what can local governments do to foster such game changing entrepreneurship? Yes. Here is the example of Greg Gianforte. On this recording he discusses what the success of his company RightNow did for Montana, where there was no technology

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: PubMatic CTO Anand Das and VP Engineering Sri Gopalsamy (Part 1)

Publishers are using Big Data and machine learning to optimize what ads to put in front of their audience. This discussion delves into the depths of that process, and also explores open problems in that world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing you to the audience. Tell us about yourself as well as about PubMatic.

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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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279th 1M/1M Roundtable Recording On Oct. 8, 2015: Greg Gianforte On Entrepreneurship, Economic Development And Politics

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Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 1)

Following up on our ‘Bootstrapping Using Services‘ and ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’ case studies, here’s the story of PhishMe, a cyber security company that has scaled nicely. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Rohyt

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Roundtable Recap: October 8 – Greg Gianforte On Entrepreneurship, Economic Development And Politics

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Greg Gianforte, Founder and CEO of RightNow Technologies. Greg took RightNow public, and later sold it to Oracle for $1.5 billion. He made an unorthodox choice of building the company mainly in Montana. Today, RightNow (now Oracle) is one of Montana’s largest employers, and Greg is

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