Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jas Grewal, CEO of CareSkore (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That I don’t agree with. Just like you did, while you had your job, you started researching your product and validating your idea to a large extent. This is based on research. That has a higher survival rate. If you quit your job and jump with both feet into something that is not

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Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about ROI. Supposing I am Daily Mail and I have a huge inventory. I have 100 million readers. What is your proposal to me? What can you do to my site? In terms of monetization, how much can you deliver? If I gave you access to my full inventory, what

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Jas Grewal, CEO of CareSkore (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell us a little bit about your company. You’re a venture-funded company in the Bay Area, right? Jas Grewal: Yes, we are. The company started in 2015. We signed on a couple of pilot customers that we built our initial products around. We were looking at data. We were working incognito for a

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December 15 – 332nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 332nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 15, 2016, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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331st Roundtable Recording On December 8, 2016

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Using Storytelling to Pitch Startups

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Capturing an investor’s interest and evoking his passion for one’s venture is crucial to securing funding. So, how might startups improve their pitches to investors by using insights from using classical tried and true storytelling?

Bootstrapping to $15 Million in Three Years: Connatix CEO David Kashak (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The thing that I keep saying in our business is that hyper growth is not a natural state. Steady growth is much more achievable than hyper growth. If you set yourself up for a situation with venture capital financing, where you have to, your definition of success is hyper growth. You’re setting yourself

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The Future: Destructive Technology Trends

Creative destruction has been at the heart of Capitalism for a long time. Technology and innovation destroy existing world orders and create new ones. The story is old. The story is celebrated. Recently, however, several technology trends are destroying without creating robust alternatives. Media is a very good example.