Catching Up On Readings: NYC Tech Ecosystem

In this feature on the New York City Tech Ecosystem, FirstMark VC Matt Truck says that it is coming of age now. Today, New York is the epicenter of the redefinition of media, and also home to many great companies in adtech, marketing, and commerce. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Adgorithms CEO Or Shani (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: In One Million by One Million, we are huge fans of the bootstrapping entrepreneurs. In fact, we have this mantra of Bootstrap first, Raise money later. We are very much in your camp in terms of the way we think about businesses. It’s not like we have anything against raising money but there’s

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Adgorithms CEO Or Shani (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How do you charge? Or Shani: We charge is take a percentage of the media spend. Sramana Mitra: You operate like an advertising agency essentially. Or Shani: Yes, a little bit. I think it might come up to the same numbers in terms of cost or percentage. At the end of the day, the

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Building a Fat Startup in Corporate Training: Karl Mehta, CEO of EdCast (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How do you charge? Is it a per user pricing model? Karl Mehta: The pricing model is exactly like Salesforce or Slack. It’s a per user per month model. It’s close to $5 to $7 per user per month. It ratchets down with volume. If you have more than 10,000 employees, you get

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Adgorithms CEO Or Shani (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In the example with the email system, you’re saying that you prefer to do all the delivery from your email marketing systems. You have a lot more control over the trial and error process. How do you control the Facebook system? You’re not going to be delivering those ads. Those ads are going

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July 21 – 314th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 314th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 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

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313th Roundtable Recording On July 14, 2016: With Henry Schuck, DiscoverOrg

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Building a Fat Startup in Corporate Training: Karl Mehta, CEO of EdCast (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: To what extent are your corporate clients specifying what areas they want learning content in, which then drives your strategy of finding people who can produce that content and deliver that content on your network? Karl Mehta: When a corporate client sets up EdCast, they tell us the topics for which they set up

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