Women ARE Raising Venture Capital: Kerry Cooper, CEO of ChooseEnergy (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: The point is that e-commerce would do well with more female investors evaluating the deal just because there is more informed perspective on how the customer behaves in that segment, especially in fashion and lifestyle brands. Kerry Cooper: I sold men’s pants for six years. I’m very comfortable figuring out what it takes

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Greg Moran, CEO of OutMatch (Part 1)

Read how Big Data is influencing hiring. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company. Greg Moran: Thanks for having me. I’m the CEO of OutMatch. We are a company that provides data analytics around the hiring and development of talent within large organisations primarily in retail,

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Louis Tetu, CEO of Coveo (Part 1)

If you are passionate about the future of data-leveraged decision making, this discussion will be great for you! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with setting a bit of context. We have talked about your entrepreneurial journey. Set some context about Coveo. Louis Tetu: Coveo is a player in a space called intelligent search. More specifically, we

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Thursday, Jan. 28 – 291st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 291st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 28, 2016, 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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Women ARE Raising Venture Capital: Kerry Cooper, CEO of ChooseEnergy (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is your experience in this industry as a woman? Of course, retail is actually full of women and women executives. Technology is less full of women executives and CEOs. This company falls a bit more on the technology side. What is your experience navigating this world? Kerry Cooper: I’m a little bit

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Catching Up On Readings: WEF 2016

Here is a collection of the ideas that dominated the World Economic Forum held at Davos last week. The ideas ranged from the Fourth Industrial Revolution to feminism, education to Europe. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Women ARE Raising Venture Capital: Kerry Cooper, CEO of ChooseEnergy (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about your financing strategy. You just mentioned that it takes a lot of cash to acquire those customers upfront and it takes time for them to really pay off. What is the financing strategy? Kerry Cooper: We’ve raised $25 million over three rounds. We’ve got a great set of investors who are

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Resilient Entrepreneurship: Inspire CEO Brian Loew (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: This is actually a great story. I love stories like this. There’s another entrepreneur whose story I’ve covered. For the first four years, he had no revenue. In the fifth year, they had a million dollars in revenue, and in the sixth year, $100 million. If you’re interested, you can check out his

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