Building a Fat Startup in Corporate Training: Karl Mehta, CEO of EdCast (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Serial entrepreneur Karl Mehta is applying consumer education models from MOOCs and such to the world of corporate training. Very interesting spin on online learning. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised,

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Catching Up On Readings: IT Spending 2016

This report from Gartner says that the worldwide IT spending is expected to be flat in 2016 and will total $3.41 trillion. Up from a negative 0.5% growth forecast last quarter, the change in growth is mainly due to currency fluctuations. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping an Ad Tech Company from Paris: Daniel Nathan, CEO of BidMotion (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next? Daniel Nathan: My first company was not going to copy the technology I was building. They were not going to buy on CPM. On the other side, my company was not going to go to direct advertisers. The issue was that advertisers wanted to work with us directly because they

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Greece Has A New Atlas: Marine Traffic CEO Demitris Memos (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Listening to you and the story, you’ve already hit your stride. You’re growing at 60% year over year. You’ve got internally generated cash. If I were you, I would probably not take external financing. How does this company become a billion dollar company? That question is not clear. On the other hand, you

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Bootstrapping an Ad Tech Company from Paris: Daniel Nathan, CEO of BidMotion (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What did this company do? Daniel Nathan: Groupon for video games. I went there for the summer. I said, “We’re going to become an incubator and build multiple companies around video games.” I said, “I’m going to build a mobile ad network specialized in video games.” We started with three people in 2012.

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Greece Has A New Atlas: Marine Traffic CEO Demitris Memos (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How many of those customers do you have? Is that a much larger customer base? Demitri Memos: In total, we have just over 4,000 paying customers. Sramana Mitra: There is a lot of SMBs that need to track and that includes all kinds of smaller operators. Demitri Memos: There is also service providers

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Blackbaud CTO Mary Beth Westmoreland (Part 4)

Mary Beth Westmoreland: We want to be open and we want to help and enable it, but we may not always be the best provider of those programs and services. I can give you 500 different use cases about the missions of these wonderful organizations that we serve whether it be on the ground in

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Bootstrapping an Ad Tech Company from Paris: Daniel Nathan, CEO of BidMotion (Part 2)

Daniel Nathan: After I studied Finance, I tried working in Finance. I did six months internship as an M&A Consultant in Deloitte. I really hated it. I was going to the restroom four times a day to sleep half an hour. They gave me a contract to work full time. I said, “I think I’m

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