Thursday, June 15 – 357th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 357th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 15, 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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Building a Fast-Growth Marketplace: Stefania Mallett, CEO of EZCater (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: But then you got to get them to come. That’s the tricky part. It’s usually true about marketplaces that one side adopts faster. If I’m thinking about your business, these caterers wanted the marketing angle that you provide. That’s the draw why these caterers would come. Stefania Mallett: Very much so. The story

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Diaz Nesamoney, Founder and CEO of Jivox (Part 1)

Diaz is a 3x serial entrepreneur. He was a co-founder of Informatica with Gaurav Dhillon. In Jivox, Diaz is working personalization into digital advertising using AI techniques including Machine Learning. A great discussion about the future of digital advertising. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company.

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Can You Scale an SME Facing B-to-B Business in India?

Can you scale an SME facing B-to-B business in India? Not easy, but … Watch this inspiring 1 minute 36 seconds video and learn more:

Building a Fast-Growth Marketplace: Stefania Mallett, CEO of EZCater (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to take an MVP out and when did you bring that to market? Stefania Mallett: We started by leasing software from a consumer residential food ordering platform. We thought, “How different can corporate catering orders be from consumer residential orders?” We were quite naive about that because

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Catching Up On Readings: WWDC 2017

This feature from Fortune looks at the highlights of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) held last week. The highlight of the event was its first shot into the smart home market. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Building a Fast-Growth Marketplace: Stefania Mallett, CEO of EZCater (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get involved with EZCater? Stefania Mallett: In early 2000 when people were looking for someone with gravitas, the investors of a company called BuzzPad reached out to me and asked me if I would come in as someone with gravitas to help the younger entrepreneurs who had founded that company.

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Building a Mid-Market Security SaaS Company from Canada: J. Paul Haynes, CEO of eSentire (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: When you looked at your business through that lens, what were some of the salient points? J. Paul Haynes: Our retention rate was 99%. When I shared that with our next investor, they had never seen anything that high. Our customer acquisition cost was too low. From our perspective, you got to get

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