Scaling an Educational Services Business to $50 Million: Todd Zipper, CEO of Learning House (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You have to pick and choose the partner that you go to business with because you’re basically risk sharing. You both have to invest to get a new brand up and running. Todd Zipper: Yes. That’s where our expertise comes in around leveraging the brand that already exists and trying to cater to

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Manoj Leelanivas, CEO of Cyphort (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The example you gave about the propagated malware, does that mean that your system scans every ad that comes into the screen of any employee of your client enterprise? Manoj Leelanivas: Yes, anything that is coming to an employee on any of the vectors. In this case, it’s going to a web page.

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March 3 – 296th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 296th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 3, 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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Bootstrapping an IoT Company from North Carolina: Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  North Carolina, at one point, had a large concentration of cellular technology companies. Today, some of that talent has come together around IoT. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what

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295th Roundtable Recording On Feb. 25, 2016: With Kae Capital Founder Sasha Mirchandani

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Scaling an Educational Services Business to $50 Million: Todd Zipper, CEO of Learning House (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Going from curriculum to a more broad soup-to-nuts set of services and, accordingly, raising the percentage of the royalties that you get paid is a massive strategic move. Todd Zipper: It’s risky. I’d like to say we are in the private equity game because I’m going to be a million dollars in before

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Roundtable Recap: February 25 – Indian Venture Capital Industry – Where Do Things Stand?

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Sasha Mirchandani, Managing Partner of Kae Capital, an early stage venture fund. Sasha is also a co-founder of Mumbai Angels. Sasha re-emphasized two points that we have heard before: Indian VCs only invest in India-facing B-to-C ventures and global B-to-B startups. India-facing B-to-B is not a

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Jimi Crawford, CEO of Orbital Insights (Part 2)

Jimi Crawford: Another use case that we’ve been working on is simply counting cars. It seems simple. It’s not actually all that simple because the satellite images have relatively low resolution—about a meter or so per pixel. There’s not very many pixels. We’ve been able to train to actually count cars accurately in parking lots,

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