Bootstrapping to $10M+ From Australia: Financial DNA CEO Hugh Massie (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: When you decided that this was the mission around which you were going to create an offering, what did you decide to do? What was the product or service? What format did it take? Hugh Massie: I realized that it needed to be a product that was scalable. It could be done by

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July 6 – 360th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 360th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, July 6, 2017, 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. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register

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359th Roundtable Recording On June 29, 2017: With Vaclav Muchna, Y Soft

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6 Podcasts with VCs Interested in Cloud Startups

Just as entrepreneurs brought computing from centralized mainframes to distributed desktop PCs and then to cloud computing, entrepreneurs continue to make their marks on various parts of the cloud. Without the support of venture capitalists and investors, much of this progression would not be possible. If your startup operates in the cloud, you would be

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Mike Flannagan, SVP of Analytics, SAP (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Unintended bias has been very intentional in the past. Mike Flannagan: That’s the thing. If you look at the way compensation is generally determined, it’s based on salary history. If you consider the fact that, historically, there was an intended bias, it’s based on a history. If we want to remove that inherent bias,

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Roundtable Recap: June 29 – Crisp Positioning is a Requirement for Business Acceleration

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Vaclav Muchna, CEO at Y Soft, a $30 million enterprise software company that he has bootstrapped from the Czech Republic. DAVOVI Up first, Shivanesh Shunmugam from Chennai, India, pitched DAVOVI, a portal for ICT products and services providers. The company has some paying clients but is

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2017: Dome9 Security, Mountain View, CA

According to Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 18% in 2017 to reach $246.8 billion, up from $209.2 billion in 2016. The highest growth is expected to come from cloud Infrastructure as a service (IaaS), which is projected to grow 36.8% in 2017 to reach $34.6 billion. The public cloud

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Bootstrapping to $10M+ From Australia: Financial DNA CEO Hugh Massie (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Wonderful story of yet another Australian founder who has diligently scaled to $10M+ in revenue. 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? Hugh Massie: I was born

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