February 18 – 294th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 294th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 18, 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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Building a High Growth SaaS Company from Los Angeles: Nick Hedges, CEO of Velocify (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What triggered the telephony piece? What is the telephony functionality from a use case point of view? Nick Hedges: It does a large number of things. One of the things is that it allows you to work very efficiently through an optimized list. If you look at what a typical salesperson does in

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Catching Up On Readings: Gravitational Waves

The discovery of gravitaional waves has caused a ripple all over the world. This feature from MIT Technology Review says the discovery confirms not only a prediction of Einstein’s theory of general relativity but also the nature of black holes, and gives astronomers a new tool for observing the cosmos. For this week’s posts, click on

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Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about your involvement in that company and how long you were involved in that company. Jeremy Young: I was involved for probably a couple of years. I ended up selling my interest back to them. Sramana Mitra: In what capacity? Jeremy Young: I came to them with the idea. They

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Building a High Growth SaaS Company from Los Angeles: Nick Hedges, CEO of Velocify (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There was nothing specific to the mortgage industry? It was pretty much a horizontal product that you apply to the mortgage industry and when you decided to diversify after the financial crisis, it translated reasonably easily into these other verticals? Nick Hedges: Exactly right. Sramana Mitra: You’re back to $4 million in revenue

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Creating Breakthrough Innovations Through Design With Big and Small Data Analysis

By Guest Author Soren Petersen For decades, Business Intelligence (BI) and, more recently, Big Data Analytics (BDA) has been successfully applied to create incremental innovations. These incremental innovations have been applied in such diverse areas as customer satisfaction, human resources, process management and merger & acquisitions. However, to date, the use of data has failed

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Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the premise of that partnership? Jeremy Young: Windows95.com was owned by Steve Jenkins. He was my partner in Virtual Servers. He pushed traffic from Windows95 to my company. He basically had advertisements for the web hosting product on his website. Sramana Mitra: How big did the company grow to be? Jeremy

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Building a High Growth SaaS Company from Los Angeles: Nick Hedges, CEO of Velocify (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next? Nick Hedges: I joined the company because I was really interested in the data that they were collecting and the flexibility of the platform that they had built. Essentially, they were collecting closed-loop data so these are data from the point that the lead was created to the point that they converted

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