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Successful Pivot to a High Growth Business: Ray Grainger, CEO of Mavenlink (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: What did you do in terms of going and trying to recruit the next set of projects? Did you then go out to find projects that are in line with those people’s expertise? Ray Grainger: We decided to take a different path. The thousand people told us, “We really like your concept. It’s
Women Entrepreneurs – The Myth, The Minefield, The Movement
On March 31st, I gave a talk at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View for the Women Who Code group. In it, I addressed many of the myths about being a female entrepreneur that are currently circulating in the industry. For example: There’s a bias against women in Silicon Valley You CAN and SHOULD try to
Thursday, April 21 – 303rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 303rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 21, 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
Thought Leaders in Online Education: David Lord, CEO of JumpStart (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on some of these trends that you are talking about. Tell us a bit about what is in the horizon versus what is already active. You talked about personalized learning. Are products already in the market that are personalized learning games? David Lord: I would call the products that we
Multiple Pivots, Taking on Giants, to Over $100 Million in Revenue: Matthew Calkins, CEO of Appian (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s pause for a moment. I want to ask a few questions about your survival. Were you bootstrapping this company or were you funded? How did you manage to survive this pivot financially? Matthew Calkins: Our cash flow was quite strong. We were running a services business. We were doing a little bit
Successful Pivot to a High Growth Business: Ray Grainger, CEO of Mavenlink (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Who were these thousand participants and how did you get them on the platform? Ray Grainger: We started with our own network of people we knew. We come from a service provider industry so we have a lot of people in our network who are service providers in one capacity or another. Between the
Thought Leaders in Online Education: David Lord, CEO of JumpStart (Part 1)
This discussion takes us into the realm of learning games and their future. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Jumpstart. David Lord: I’m the CEO of JumpStart. JumpStart has been the leader in learning-based games for the past 25 years. JumpStart was founded by Bill Gross before Idealab.
