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A Late Bloomer on Building a Legitimate Unicorn: Veeva Systems CEO Peter Gassner (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, Jul 2nd 2016

Sramana Mitra: Where did you find traction? In building the product for the pharmaceutical industry, how did you scope the product? Did you have some anchor customers? Peter Gassner: This wasn’t that complex really. This was pharmaceutical CRM. We just decided to go there. It’s a known area and these companies had systems for it.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Tom Bianculli, Vice President of Technology Office at Zebra Technologies (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Jul 1st 2016

Sramana Mitra: If you lift yourself to the 30,000-foot level, what trends really excite you and where do you see open problems that need to be tackled by new entrepreneurs? Tom Bianculli: There are these three things that we talk about a lot. There’s IoT, cloud, and mobility. The three of those are coming together. We’re going

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From an EIR Experiment to a Fast Growth SaaS Company: Joe Kinsella, Founder and CTO of CloudHealth (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Jul 1st 2016

Joe Kinsella: From there, I decided that I wanted to start a business. I started a company called Tarragon. I wanted to build out a tools business. It ended up being more of a consulting services business. I wasn’t able to balance the consulting and software side. I built a small team of people. We

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July 7 – 312th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jul 1st 2016

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 312th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 7, 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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311th Roundtable Recording On June 30, 2016: With Sinclair Schuller, Apprenda

Posted on Friday, Jul 1st 2016

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

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A Late Bloomer on Building a Legitimate Unicorn: Veeva Systems CEO Peter Gassner (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Jul 1st 2016

Sramana Mitra: When you came back, how did you re-engage with the working life? Peter Gassner: It was just a matter of deciding. That was the first decision. I also wanted to do something I was good at. I didn’t want to open a coffee shop and compete with a 23-year-old who knew as much

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Roundtable Recap: June 30 – You Don’t Need To Move To Silicon Valley To Scale

Posted on Thursday, Jun 30th 2016

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Sinclair Schuller, CEO and Co-Founder, Apprenda. Sinclair has built Apprenda as an enterprise software company with $55 million in financing from Upstate New York. He has raised funding from Silicon Valley, but without moving here. Listen to what he has to say about moving to the Valley. Yozzi.com

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Tom Bianculli, Vice President of Technology Office at Zebra Technologies (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Jun 30th 2016

Sramana Mitra: You’re saying that this is something that is in pilot. Tom Bianculli: It’s not in commercial deployment, but two of the top five freight carriers in the world are trailing it. Sramana Mitra: Any other use case that you want to present? Tom Bianculli: There’s one in the healthcare space that I can

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