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Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Nov 21st 2015

Sramana Mitra: How did these people find out about your service – that they could join as lookers? Robin Smith: There are national property inspection companies and it wasn’t too far out of the realm of getting that same group of people. I didn’t want to launch with WeGoLook until I had the platform ready

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jerry Melnick, CEO of SIOS (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Nov 20th 2015

Sramana Mitra: If you look at the industry in your space and the adjacent spaces, where do you see open problems that new entrepreneurs could be working on? Jerry Melnick: The real movement today is clearly around service-based versus product-based offerings. When I say that, I’m referring specifically to cloud service. Utility computing is finally

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Roundtable Recap: November 19 – A Story of Resilience

Posted on Friday, Nov 20th 2015

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest, Adam Singolda, CEO of Taboola. Adam’s journey is one that has always fascinated me. It took him four years to get product market fit, and today, the company is at over $200M in revenue. Persistence pays. Resilience is the single most important characteristic that drives entrepreneurial

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Kevin O’Malley and Patrick Shea, Co-founders of AdDaptive Intelligence (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Nov 20th 2015

Sramana Mitra: When it comes to publishers, how much revenue are publishers making by plugging you in? Are they doubling revenues or tripling revenues? What kind of ROI are you showing them? Kevin O’Malley: A lot of times, they are doubling the amount of revenue they’re bringing in from a traditional display advertising. Obviously, different

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Bootstrapping From Oklahoma: Robin Smith, CEO of WeGoLook (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Nov 20th 2015

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. Let’s go a bit granular here. You started in 2009 you said? Robin Smith: I formed the LLC late 2009. It took about a year to recruit my first group of lookers. I built the platform and my website. It took about a year for me to do all that. It was

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December 10 – 286th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Nov 20th 2015

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 286th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 10, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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285th Roundtable Recording On Nov. 19, 2015: With Taboola Founder CEO Adam Singolda

Posted on Friday, Nov 20th 2015

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Kevin O’Malley and Patrick Shea, Co-founders of AdDaptive Intelligence (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Nov 19th 2015

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about the workflow of this? Where is the data collection happening? Where is the data integration with the algorithm happening? Is this happening in real-time, batch, or pre-setting of some sort? How is this setup? If I’m a publisher who wants to plug in your system into my site, how

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