Entrepreneur Couple Bootstrapping to $10M from Colorado: AdCellerant Co-Founders Brock Berry and Shelby Carlson (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Love and startups go hand in hand for Brock and Shelby who are helping media companies generate seven-figure revenue streams. Sramana Mitra: Whoever wants to start, let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and

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Catching Up On Readings: IT Spending 2017

This report from Gartner says worldwide IT spending is projected to total $3.5 trillion in 2017, up 2.4% driven by disruptive technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT) in manufacturing, blockchain in financial services, and smart machines in retail. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. 

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ten-X VP of Data Products, Sheridan Hitchens (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Why don’t we take the real estate constraint off and listen to what you have to say about the movement of Big Data and the industry trend in general. Sheridan Hitchens: This may sound controversial. I work in a technology function. The technology side of things is getting pretty good. The whole Hadoop

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Devin Johnson, CEO of FirstMile (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If you were starting a company today focusing on the domain of logistics in e-commerce, what kind of a company would you start? Where do you see open problems and white spaces? Devin Johnson: When someone asks you when you’re a little kid what you want to do when you grow up, you

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ten-X VP of Data Products, Sheridan Hitchens (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What trends do you see in data usage in the real estate market? Sheridan Hitchens: It’s interesting. There’re a couple of things that stand out for me. People are increasingly aware that having good data is instrumental. For many people in many companies, buying a piece of real estate is a really big

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Devin Johnson, CEO of FirstMile (Part 4)

Devin Johnson: When we pull back to the answer to your question, when a call comes in and Amazon says, “If you sell this product, the category for shipping you’ve determines means that this package has to be delivered in three to five days.” One of our clients can send a request for us saying,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Ten-X VP of Data Products, Sheridan Hitchens (Part 1)

This discussion focuses on Big Data in the real estate industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Ten-X. Sheridan Hitchens: I’ve been in the industry for about 20 years. I started off my career with Procter & Gamble. I was in strategy consulting for a long while. For the last

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