5 Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence

After publishing my recent article, Must-read Articles on Artificial Intelligence, in which I’ve shared my thoughts and concerns about AI, some have asked for more. Here are my in-depth interviews with five (actually six) thought leaders who are deeply engaged in artificial intelligence development today that I hope will provide a good overall perspective on

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Catching Up On Readings: Tech M&A 2016

After a brief lull in 2015, there has been a spurt of acquisitions by tech giants this year led by Microsoft’s $26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn and more recently the $9.3 billion acquisition offer for NetSuite. This VentureBeat feature looks at the Tech M&A scene in 2016. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping Using Services: Taylor Tyng, CEO of Wiredrive (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: With the way you’re running the business today, have you identified levers where if you just throw money at it, you’re going to grow orders of magnitude faster? Taylor Tyng: Yes. It’s actually been one of the most interesting things. The focus on the type of product that we were building was a

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Building a Cutting-Edge Telecollaboration Company: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Where are you today from the revenue range point of view? John Underkoffler: Our revenues are now well into the respectable double digits – that’s with two commas. We’re vectoring towards an intermediate goal of a hundred million dollar run rate. The proposition that we’re working on is broad enough for it to be a very

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Taylor Tyng, CEO of Wiredrive (Part 5)

Taylor Tyng: By focusing on the organization and how teams collaborated, we could assist with making sure the intellectual knowledge was captured and shared. What we saw in our competing niches were people who were trying to solve more individualized and lighter weight problems. Another major inflection point for us was how cloud has been developing

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September 22 – 322nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 322nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 22, 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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Building a Cutting-Edge Telecollaboration Company: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What else happened? It sounds like it’s a fairly straightforward enterprise software go-to market strategy. The beauty of that strategy is that you get these large deals and good cash flow. I think we understand that model. Is there anything else you did strategically that was particularly interesting? John Underkoffler: We’ve made it

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321st Roundtable Recording On September 15, 2016: With Investorist Founder Jon Ellis

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: