Raising Money From Eighty Investors and Steering to a Successful Exit: Ludovic Huraux, CEO of Attractive World (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Boredom doesn’t create happiness. Ludovic Huraux: Yes. I really try to keep it in mind. We think about the future all the time, “In the future, I will be happier because I’ll get something.” It doesn’t work like that. You really need to learn to be in the present and really enjoy what

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: James Green, CEO of Magnetic (Part 1)

James points out that in e-commerce and digital marketing, point solutions have become more effective than the broad suites from players like Adobe and Marketo. Read on and see if you agree! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Magnetic. James Green: I’m the CEO of Magnetic. Magnetic

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship from Utah: Ben Dilts, Founder and CTO of Lucid Chart (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Your source of bringing people onto the site is all content marketing and SEO? Ben Dilts: There are a couple of channels that have turned out to be tremendous sources of users. Early on, we were featured in the launch of the Chrome web store, which was a big deal with the Chrome

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Catching Up On Readings: Fake News

This editorial feature from The New York Times looks at the longstanding problem of the dissemination of fake news stories on social media sites. It says a big part of the responsibility for this scourge rests with internet companies like Facebook and Google, which have made it possible for fake news to be shared nearly

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris McNabb, CEO of Dell Boomi (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at the integration space, what do you think are open problems that new entrepreneurs should be looking at solving? Chris McNabb: The one thing to recognize is integration shouldn’t be an afterthought for all of the reasons I talked earlier about why integration is becoming strategic to an enterprise. Let’s

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship from Utah: Ben Dilts, Founder and CTO of Lucid Software (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What did he figure out in terms of how you acquire customers? What is the business model? What is the pricing model for your product? Ben Dilts: One piece of real concrete skill that Dave brought to the table was that he had a history in SEO. He had a good handle on

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Raising Money From Eighty Investors and Steering to a Successful Exit: Ludovic Huraux, CEO of Attractive World (Part 4)

Ludovic Huraux:The US VCs said, “You have a very interesting model. It’s profitable but it doesn’t mean that it will succeed in the US.” They were scared to invest in a French startup. I was very frustrated. I decided to focus on the French market. I explained to my shareholder that I wasn’t the best

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Chris McNabb, CEO of Dell Boomi (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk a bit about the competitive landscape? You said you’re the market leader. Whom do you see in deals? Chris McNabb: The competitive landscape is very broad today. There are people who started in the integration PaaS about the same time that we did. You’ll see those kinds of competitors out

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