Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Alex McArthur, Chief Marketing Officer of Purple Mattress (Part 1)

The special mattress e-commerce space is on a tear. We discuss the trends, the why and the how. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Purple Mattress. Alex McArthur: I’m the Chief Marketing Officer at Purple. Purple started January 22, 2016 and just went through an amazing growth

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2017: smartQED, San Mateo, California

According to a MarketsandMarkets report, the incident response services market is estimated to grow from $13.09 billion in 2016 to $30.29 billion by 2021, at a CAGR of 18.3%. smartQED is an intelligent, AI-driven workbench for expediting IT incident response and problem resolution. It enables collaborative investigations through visual tools for systematic root cause analysis,

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Are You Facing Layoffs? Want to Start Your Own Business?

Tech companies have announced 200,000 layoffs. Are you facing layoffs? Want to start off on your own? Watch this inspiring 1 minute 32 seconds video: For more details, read From Laid-off Engineer To Successful Startup CEO: Michelle Munson of Aspera. Start by taking our free, one-hour Bootstrapping Course. Checkout our Udemy courses for tech entrepreneurs,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Mike Flannagan, SVP of Analytics, SAP (Part 1)

This is a superb conversation about the trends and directions in which AI is evolving, especially in business applications. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to SAP’s artificial intelligence activities. What trends are you seeing? What trends are you leading? Mike Flannagan: The most significant thing that we’re seeing is that people don’t

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Catching Up On Readings: Mobile Population

This feature from VentureBeat covers the highlights of GSMA report, according to which 5 billion people or two-thirds of the world population now has a mobile connection. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sash Sunkara, CEO of Rackware (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little bit about your company. You’ve raised three rounds of financing. What’s the genesis of the company? What’s the story? Sash Sunkara: We started the company in 2009. It was myself and Todd Matters. Our focus was on building a cloud management suite for the enterprises and building that bridge.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Sash Sunkara, CEO of Rackware (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You talked about security as your opening trend. You’re a vendor that’s providing a very comprehensive stack. Are your security capabilities your own or do you work with other vendors that are providing the security capability? Sash Sunkara: Both. There is a certain level of security that is integrated into our product. We encrypt

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8 Women Founders on Building Their Startups in Podcasts

Entrepreneurs, especially woman entrepreneurs, looking for some inspirational and informative startup founders to share their unique perspectives and lessons learned, will find several success stories worth following in this selection of 30-minute podcasts. Therese Tucker, Founder and CEO of BlackLine, is a very successful female entrepreneur who followed our core philosophy of bootstrap first, raise money

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