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Today’s 334th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, January 5, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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The Future: India Will Take AI on the Chin

India’s development over the last two decades owes a lot to globalization and IT outsourcing from the West. Today, the Indian IT-BPO industry employs 3.7 million people. A large portion of this is relatively low skilled, or at least mid-range skilled positions. Artificial Intelligence, it seems, will deliver on its promise on many vectors. Low-skilled

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Building a Fast Growing FinTech Company from Utah: MX CEO Ryan Caldwell (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What about customer validation? How did you get this off the ground in terms of the early customers and customer input early on? Ryan Caldwell: We had to take really good care of the end user, which is our largest concern. If we don’t take good care of the customer, we can’t take

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Building a Fast Growing FinTech Company from Utah: MX CEO Ryan Caldwell (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the concept of MX? Ryan Caldwell: MX is addressing one of the core issues for mankind, which is people don’t have visibility into their finances. Finance is, in fact, a critical part of life for people. So much of the intangibles that we care about whether it’s family or health are directly

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Raising Funding on AngelList: Contactually CEO Zvi Band (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year are we at now? Zvi Band: Around 2010. I had just been the CTO of an enterprise startup. I was consulting. I then tried starting my own projects. It was called Structo. Are you familiar with parse and convey and all these backend service tools? Sramana Mitra: No. Zvi Band: The

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Building a Fast Growing FinTech Company from Utah: MX CEO Ryan Caldwell (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What happens after? Ryan Caldwell: I went to do consulting. I wanted to be at the heart of San Francisco. I did consulting for companies like Microsoft and Visa in London and Singapore. Sramana Mitra: What was the next major thing that you did after selling this company? Ryan Caldwell: I gained some

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Raising Funding on AngelList: Contactually CEO Zvi Band (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Zvi has raised several rounds of financing on AngelList in the process of building Contactually. Among other things, his experience with the platform is interesting in this interview. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were

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Corporate Innovation: Tyranny of the TAM is Less Severe