Roundtable Recap: June 30 – You Don’t Need To Move To Silicon Valley To Scale

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Sinclair Schuller, CEO and Co-Founder, Apprenda. Sinclair has built Apprenda as an enterprise software company with $55 million in financing from Upstate New York. He has raised funding from Silicon Valley, but without moving here. Listen to what he has to say about moving to the Valley. Yozzi.com

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Tom Bianculli, Vice President of Technology Office at Zebra Technologies (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You’re saying that this is something that is in pilot. Tom Bianculli: It’s not in commercial deployment, but two of the top five freight carriers in the world are trailing it. Sramana Mitra: Any other use case that you want to present? Tom Bianculli: There’s one in the healthcare space that I can

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From an EIR Experiment to a Fast Growth SaaS Company: Joe Kinsella, Founder and CTO of CloudHealth (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Joe founded CloudHealth as an EIR at a Boston VC firm. Last year the SaaS company had 300 customers. The story explores how he achieved product market fit and found its stride. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are

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311th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 311th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 30, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.  

311th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 311th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, June 30, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

A Late Bloomer on Building a Legitimate Unicorn: Veeva Systems CEO Peter Gassner (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the trigger to leave Peoplesoft? Peter Gassner: The management team had changed at Peoplesoft. I had started as a developer there. At the end of nine years, I was handling a team of 500 people. I worked hard there. I loved the team I assembled. Then, the management team changed. Culture changed

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What is Jeff Bezos Doing with The Washington Post?

A few days back, I read an extensive analysis of the Washington Post under Jeff Bezos titled The Bezos Effect: How Amazon’s Founder Is Reinventing The Washington Post – and What Lessons It Might Hold for the Beleaguered Newspaper Business.

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Tom Bianculli, Vice President of Technology Office at Zebra Technologies (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I would like to see a real case study with proper metrics about these customer use cases. We try not to report stories that are foo foo. What I’m looking for is the impact. For one thing, is this a pilot in one store at Macy’s or is this something that is being

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