Self-Management Trumps Passion in Design-Driven Startup Performance

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Although all startup founders of design driven startups are passionate – still 92% of them will fail within three years, according to a joint Berkeley – Stanford study. While passion may be a core capability, it can hardly be called a competitive advantage, so, what characteristics separate a design-centered founder from

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Ryan Golden, CEO of Moasis (Part 1)

This discussion delves into location based mobile advertising optimization, an emerging arena that will likely grow substantially. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Moasis and yourself. Ryan Golden: I’m the co-founder and CEO of Moasis. We provide in-flight location optimization. We discover location opportunities for brand marketers and ad agencies at scale

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Everbridge CEO Jaime Ellertson (Part 4)

Jaime Ellertson: Let me now answer your question on growing areas of our business where we see opportunities. When we think of corporate with information exchange, they spend in the neighbourhood of $5 billion dollars a year on the physical buildings that all their employees are in. The reality is when someone leaves that building or

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Thursday, March 31 – 300th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 300th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 31, 2016, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 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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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mike Baukes and Alan Sharp-Paul, Co-CEOs of UpGuard (Part 1)

Just like your credit score, your security score is an important metric to track. Read on to see what’s happening in that realm. Sramana Mitra: If one of you could give us some background about UpGuard as well as the two of you, that would be great to begin with. Mike Baukes: We’re a company

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Catching Up On Readings: Data Warehouse Disruptions 2016

This feature from Information Week looks at disruption in the data warehouse market and how traditional and new vendors have shifted their placements in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report for 2016. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Everbridge CEO Jaime Ellertson (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of trends, what kind of adoption do you see in the citizens in signing up for these kinds of alerts through mobile devices? Jaime Ellertson: There’s a couple of interesting things. I mentioned at the start about significant events like Super Bowl or the papal visit. In an event like the

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Norm Wu, CEO of i-Human Patients (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: That’s a good thing because your contribution is in enhancing the quality of education, so the ones who don’t have that quality of education will gain more from your technology. Norm Wu: Right. Just like with MOOCs, you can go out and find the best educators and the best content. We’ve had a

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