For Music Industry Entrepreneurs – Some Thoughts, Some Questions

I have been observing the online music industry becoming more and more dysfunctional by the day. Pandora, one of the real juggernauts of the space, is up for sale. While wildly popular, the business doesn’t make much money. Unclear, if it ever will. On the other side of the spectrum, I am close to a

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Rob Chamberlin, Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of DataXoom (Part 1)

This conversation highlights how businesses overlay mobile virtual networks on top of wireless carrier networks for specific use cases. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some introduction to yourself as well as DataXoom and introduce our audience to the context of this call. Rob Chamberlin: I’m the Co-Founder and Chief Revenue Officer of DataXoom. We’re a

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Christopher Dean, CEO of Swrve (Part 1)

This discussion delves into the depths of what can be tracked and what is being tracked in maximising the impact of mobile apps in industries like travel and hospitality, retail, gaming, etc. It’s a very good view into predictive and analytics-based targeting, real-time actions based on specific business goals, and the related domain. Very interesting

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From High School Drop Out to $20M in Revenue: Brad Lea’s Journey with Lightspeed VT (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Brad knows how to sell. Read how he turned that skill in to a $20M revenue business with very little formal education. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind

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Catching Up On Readings: Interop 2016

The 30th version of the Interop conference held in Las Vegas last week focused on promoting interoperability among Internet of Things devices. This feature from NetworkWorld looks at the hottest products featured at the conference. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. 

Bootstrapping from New Zealand, Scaling in America: Jason Westland, CEO of ProjectManager.com (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What about the New Zealand team? Jason Westland: I still have them. They’re our development team. If you can imagine going back to 2014, it was just me and the development team. Now, I have a team of customer support and marketing people here in Austin. The development team in New Zealand has

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Janet Kosloff, CEO of InCrowd (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to change the one questioning a little bit, and ask you what your feelings are about being a woman entrepreneur in the technology industry. What are you seeing? What has been your experience? Do you experience bias against you being a woman entrepreneur? Janet Kosloff: I wouldn’t say I experienced any

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Building a Robust Business in Australia: Investorist CEO Jon Ellis (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: What is the minimum revenue threshold you think you need to get to achieve that? Jon Ellis: My opinion is you need minimum revenues of about $50 million. However, plenty of companies especially in Australia, IPO at the level that we’re at now. Sramana Mitra: I don’t think that’s a good idea necessarily.

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