A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Wowza CEO David Stubenvoll (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Ups and downs, successes and failures, experiments and pivots – the stuff that make up a serial entrepreneur’s journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? David

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Future of Artificial Intelligence: Demonetization

As a follow-up to my series of articles on Artificial Intelligence, my friend Som Das sent me an article by Peter Diamandis on demonetization and the “abundance” that will be created with the help of technology. People are concerned about how AI and robotics are taking jobs and destroying livelihoods… reducing our earning capacity, and subsequently destroying

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2016: Torchlite, Indianapolis, IN

By 2020, more than 40% of the American workforce, or 60 million people are expected to be independent freelancers. While dozens of tech platforms exist to help companies find freelance talent, Torchlite is the first platform that helps them manage, collaborate with, and evaluate that talent in the niche area of digital marketing.

Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: There a lot of people trying to do the solution that you’re describing – this central electronic health record of a patient. Can you help me understand when you started this company, what was the competitive landscape like, and how has that competitive landscape evolved over the years as you have been in this business?

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What happens in 1998? Philippe d’Offay: You have to go back a little bit because the two questions overlap with one another. There’s a lot of news lately about medical errors. According to a Johns Hopkins, more than a quarter million patients die due to medical errors a year. In 1991, my grandfather

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A Startup Idea Focused on Good, Home-cooked Food

The market these days is full of food related startups, especially those that are trying to deliver meals to the home. Nuances vary. Some bring in all the ingredients and a recipe to be cooked at home. Some bring ready-to-eat food. Most are focused on scaling with gobs of venture capital. I have a different

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Philippe has turned ~$300k of friends and family investment into a $6.5 million ARR business. Read on to learn how. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

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Catching Up On Readings: Black Hat USA 2016

The Black Hat USA 2016 is a cyber security conference being held in Las Vegas from Jul 30 to Aug 4. This feature from InformationWeek’s Dark Reading highlights eight new open source tools for pen testers and security operations experts. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.