Thursday, September 29 – 323rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 323rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 29, 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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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Peter Horadan, CTO and EVP of Engineering at Avalara (Part 1)

The increasing adoption of electronic commerce and the related national/global nature of the business has created challenges for merchants on the tax calculation and filing front. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Avalara and yourself. Peter Horadan: I’m EVP of Engineering and CTO for Avalara. We help

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Himanshu Palsule, CTO of Epicor Software (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: It’s very similar to the strategy that you’re following, but with a very different segment. You’re working in the $50 million to $500 million segment. They are working in the very small business segment. Their end customer is the 5 to 10 people company. A lot of what he is interested in doing

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Catching Up On Readings: Disrupt SF 2016

The three-day TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 wevent as held in San Francisco from September 12. This TechCrunch article covers the highlights of the event. The winner of the Startup Battlefied this year was visual e-sports analytics platform Mobalytics. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Himanshu Palsule, CTO of Epicor Software (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to ask the previous question a slightly different way and see if I get a different answer from you. If you were starting a new company in vertical cloud, what would you start? What might be an are where you would dig to find an opportunity? Himanshu Palsule: Let me step

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Himanshu Palsule, CTO of Epicor Software (Part 3)

Himanshu Palsule: Until the entire ecosystem was ready, those people weren’t as ready as the person who did CRM on Salesforce 10 years ago. I think the key drivers that are tipping this over are largely that our industry goes through a chain cycle for ERP. It used to be five to seven years. Now

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Building a Mobile Security Company in Silicon Valley: Domingo Guerra, Co-Founder and President of Appthority (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: At what point did you make that switch from going indirect to direct? Domingo Guerra: I think it was around 2013 when we were in front of a lot more customers. We started realizing that it is a new space that’s changing very quickly. It’s difficult to train a partner to sell something that’s

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Himanshu Palsule, CTO of Epicor Software (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How is your product architected? Do you have a broad horizontal platform and do you then do these customizations on top of that? Himanshu Palsule: Largely. We have a broad portfolio of products. We have quite a few ERP products across the world. Typically, the product that we’ll end up talking about is

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