Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Jonathan Crane, Chief Commercial Officer at IPSoft (Part 2)

Jonathan Crane: Amelia is targeted at changing the way we work. We’ve taken these virtual engineers in IT management and we’re now coming up with a virtual employee. We’ve bunched this together and call it digital labor or software-defined labor, much like we’re seeing technologies today like Network-as-a-Service or Software-as-a-Service. Everything is being made into

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An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: But your target customer strategy was local. That’s how you were getting these customers, right? Cameron Weeks: That’s how we started. It was local. Once we had established the client base in the local market, we found a very well-established channel partner. They go by the term telecom partners. We found that were

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Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You talked about the first newsletter that Amit Gupta got you into and you got several thousand sign ups from that. Is there a dominant segment type of users that stores their materials on your server? Gleb Budman: It’s all sorts of people. Photographers are a large percentage because it’s completely unlimited back

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Jonathan Crane, Chief Commercial Officer at IPSoft (Part 1)

How far should Artificial Intelligence be pushed to engage emotionally with humans? Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and IPSoft. Jonathan Crane: I’m the Chief Commercial Officer of IPSoft. IPSoft is probably not a company many of you would know. We’ve been a privately held company for 17 years now, grown to

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An Emerging Success Story from Indiana: Fathom Voice CEO Cameron Weeks (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: From whom did you raise $500,000? Cameron Weeks: We got lucky. We say that this company is very blessed. One of the partners that came in was actually a VC firm from California called Small World Group. Sramana Mitra: Is this Frank Levinson? Cameron Weeks: Yes, you know Frank? Sramana Mitra: Very well,

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Building a Sustainable, Capital-Efficient Business: Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You started this in 2007? Gleb Budman: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: You self-financed it with your colleagues? Gleb Budman: We did. It was definitely a long, crazy journey. Five of us committed to a year without salary. That would be the seed round. We then had two more people who joined us. We call

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Thursday, Dec. 10 – 286th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

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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The No-VC Semiconductor Company

An adapted excerpt from Tough Things First by Guest Author Ray Zinn Micrel was launched on my personal credit. I wanted to avoid venture capital and family loans when starting my semiconductor company, so I approached three different banks. I knew that banks didn’t lend to start-ups with unproven management teams and no products. But

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