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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Matt Oppenheimer, CEO of Remitly (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 23rd 2016

Sramana Mitra: Is there a demographic categorization where you’re winning more? Is there an income bracket or are you seeing it more in an age group? What I’m trying to get at is which part of the population is adopting this kind of mobile money transfer? Matt Oppenheimer: There isn’t just one segment of age or

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Multiple Pivots, Taking on Giants, to Over $100 Million in Revenue: Matthew Calkins, CEO of Appian (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Apr 23rd 2016

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. So you closed the $10 million round before the financial crisis on a questionable business plan. What happens next? Matthew Calkins: It’s an odd journey. Now we have $10 million and we could be strategic. That felt very nice because there was so much we wanted to do. We’ve always been an

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Matt Oppenheimer, CEO of Remitly (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Apr 22nd 2016

International money transfer is on its way to becoming a contactless workflow. It’s still early in terms of adoption, but the handwriting is on the wall. Sramana Mitra: Let’s have you introduce yourself as well as Remitly to our audience. Matt Oppenheimer: I’m the Founder and CEO of Remitly. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Remitly. Matt

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April 28 – 304th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Apr 22nd 2016

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 304th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 28, 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 Big Data: Mark Schwarz, VP of Data Sciences at Square Root (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Apr 22nd 2016

Mark Schwarz: It was very clear to the corporate owners and to a select set of stores that they needed to change their transaction prices and make them lower, and that they need to raise operational efficiency to compete with the third-party oil change providers. They work with us to build new ways of looking

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303rd Roundtable Recording On April 21, 2016: With Ho Nam, Altos Ventures

Posted on Friday, Apr 22nd 2016

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

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Multiple Pivots, Taking on Giants, to Over $100 Million in Revenue: Matthew Calkins, CEO of Appian (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Apr 22nd 2016

Sramana Mitra: How many enterprise customers were you able to get in 2004? How were revenues scaling? Matthew Calkins: I think we were growing at about 20% to 30% in those years. Our customer gain was never what we wanted but still steady and lucrative. In fact, we didn’t have a growth problem until 2008

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Roundtable Recap: April 21 – Choose Your Philosophy of Company Building

Posted on Thursday, Apr 21st 2016

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ho Nam, Managing Director at Altos Ventures. Ho made a clear distinction between capital efficient company building and the “grow at costs in all sorts of unsustainable ways” philosophy. They are two distinctly different ways of building businesses. Job On Buddy As for the pitches, first

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