Leveraging Amazon To Build a Cloud Storage Business: Nelson Nahum, CEO of Zadara Storage (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Was there any segmentation of what kinds of customers were finding your product attractive? Nelson Nahum: First of all, before the customer, I would like to tackle the question of the business model. We created a great technology. We found out that Amazon really liked what we do because it’s enterprise storage and

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Greenwave Systems CEO Martin Manniche (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What would be the most comfortable for us to understand what you do is if you step us through a customer use case. Martin Manniche: I can go into a few customer use cases. One is how are we bringing value to a bigger telco? So an operator who is offering consumers home

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Amir Husain, CEO of SparkCognition (Part 1)

This interview could just as well be a part of our Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence (TLAI) series. It sits at the cusp of Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence, an area where much is happening. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to SparkCognition. Amir Husain: I’m the Founder

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Leveraging Amazon To Build a Cloud Storage Business: Nelson Nahum, CEO of Zadara Storage (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You still had $3 million which you hadn’t really started building a product on. You were basically experimenting with the cloud and learning about the cloud. Nelson Nahum: Yes. I didn’t have the $3 million then. My experiments started the day after I was laid off. It took a few weeks until the

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Greenwave Systems CEO Martin Manniche (Part 1)

IoT is moving right along, here is a comprehensive discussion on some use cases and solutions from Greenwave Systems that are real and active. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Greenwave. Martin Manniche: I’m the Chairman and CEO of Greenwave Systems. We’re a managed services platform company.

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Leveraging Amazon To Build a Cloud Storage Business: Nelson Nahum, CEO of Zadara Storage (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What level of revenue did you get to before the LSI acquisition? Nelson Nahum: I think we were in the $10 million range. Sramana Mitra: How much did you sell for? Nelson Nahum: It’s confidential. It was good for most of the people. Sramana Mitra: So the bottomline is that you made some

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Building an IPO-Ready Identity Software Company from Colorado: Andre Durand, CEO of Ping Identity (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What is the financing history beyond that $2 million Fidelity and General Catalyst round? Andre Durand: I would say after about two years roughly, in very traditional fashion, we started raising money to fuel our growth. I think we raised about $30 million in total between 2003 and 2012. In 2013, we made

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Stephanie Newby, CEO of Crimson Hexagon (Part 5)

Stephanie Newby: My vision here is that we can end up with more and more companies in the world that have customers who really love them and are passionate about them. So much so that you can eliminate the hate in marketing and advertising. The reason that I think that this is even possible is

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