Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Dave O’Flanagan, CEO of Boxever (Part 1)

Learn how the airline industry is using Artificial Intelligence to market to their customers in context, with personalization. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Boxever. Dave O’Flanagan: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder of Boxever. Our customer intelligence cloud powers one-to-one customer experiences for some of the biggest

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Thursday, April 7 – 301st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 301st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 7, 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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300th 1M/1M Roundtable Recording On March 31, 2016

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Scaling a Family E-Commerce Business: Lucky Vitamin CEO Sam Wolf (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  All kinds of niche e-commerce businesses have been built over the last 20 years. Sam and his family have built a health and wellness products business that is doing quite well. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from?

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John Horn, CEO of Ingenu (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Switching gears a bit, what do you see as trends in your industry and how does that throw light on emerging challenges and open problems that you would encourage new entrepreneurs to look into with the expertise in your general area? John Horn: We know that there will be hundreds of billions and

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: John Horn, CEO of Ingenu (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit more about your customer base. What customers are you serving and how? John Horn: In the past, our technology was used primarily to build private networks. Our customer base at that point were utilities, municipalities, and oil & gas companies. These were industries that were looking for an alternative

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300th Roundtable Recap: March 31 – Looking Back on a Decade of Entrepreneurship Development Work

During this week’s roundtable, we celebrated a major milestone: our 300th Free Mentoring Roundtable. I started off by providing an overview of what we’ve learned in the last ten years of active entrepreneurship development work around the world. Our core philosophy has remained unchanged through the course of this journey, our conviction around the core

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Mike Baukes and Alan Sharp-Paul, Co-CEOs of UpGuard (Part 5)

Mike Baukes: Another perspective is, “Are they using ethical solutions? What’s the impact that these people are having on the environment?” Those are different types of trends that we’re getting to become conscious of. They could be hot topics in the future. A really good context in security is how people get used to the aesthetics of applications

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