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Building a Cutting-Edge Telecollaboration Company: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries (Part 2)
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Bootstrapping Using Services: Taylor Tyng, CEO of Wiredrive (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What kind of customers were adopting video advertising at that time? Who were these early adopters of video? Taylor Tyng: A lot of them were post-production companies and commercial production companies. In particular, post-production companies were very interesting early adopters for us. They’re built around pipeline workflows for technologies so they understood the investments
Must-read Posts on Artificial Intelligence
My deep concerns over the impact that Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics, and over-automation will eventually have on society have led me to write several thought-provoking articles to help raise awareness while course correction is still possible. Whichever way the future unfolds, we do have some time in hand. The kind of mass scale automation that
Building a Cutting-Edge Telecollaboration Company: John Underkoffler, CEO of Oblong Industries (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. John worked on Minority Report after finishing his PhD at the MIT Media Lab. Read on how he parlayed that experience into a supercool company that is scaling nicely, while reinventing collaboration. Sramana Mitra: Where are you from? Where were you born, raised and in what
Bootstrapping Using Services: Taylor Tyng, CEO of Wiredrive (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Taylor has bootstrapped Wiredrive over a 17-year period to about $10 million. Today, he has options ahead to grow organically or raise money. Either way, an interesting journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were
Bootstrapping to $20 Million From London: Guy Mucklow, CEO of PCA Predict (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: What year are we talking when you became profitable? Guy Mucklow: It was four years after we started, so 2005. It’s interesting because it begs the question of going down the VC route or bootstrapping. Increasingly, a lot of tech entrepreneurs that I meet who have taken funding regret doing that. I know
Thursday, September 15 – 321st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 321st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 15, 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
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Adrian Ridner, CEO of Study.com (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: The last question I have from a trend point of view is, are you seeing this interest in lifelong learning translating into how long people subscribe to your program? Adrian Ridner: It shows up in two ways. One is people who subscribe for longer but move around a lot of different subject areas.
