Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Gabe Larsen, VP of InsideSales Labs (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to probe deeper. You’re saying that all the touch points are being captured. Are you recording the phone calls and doing speech-to-text? What is the level of capturing of the engagement? Gabe Larsen: We do actually record phone calls. It gets interesting, especially here in the States. You have to consider

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Thursday, January 18 – 382nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Enterpreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 382nd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, January 18, 2018, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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Bootstrapping From Romania: Marius Hanganu, CEO of Tremend (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get the company off the ground? How were you acquiring customers? What was the genesis of the story? Marius Hanganu: For years, it was a Sequoia-based startup. Before it came to be known as IoT, it was called Big Data. The technical challenges around it are quite amazing. It was

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381st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With William Hsu, Mucker Capital

William Hsu, Co-founder and Partner at Mucker Capital, a Los Angeles based fund that invests largely outside Silicon Valley and follows a more fundamentals oriented approach.

Why the Indian Market Continues to Disappoint

Indian B-to-C startups started off with huge promise and were constantly compared with China’s Alibaba. But the reality has been consistently sobering. The Economist offers some excellent analysis on the phenomenon in two articles: India’s missing middle class and India has a hole where its middle class should be. Some notable points:

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ken Elefant of Sorenson Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Ken Elefant was recorded in December 2017.  Ken Elefant, Managing Director at Sorenson Capital, discusses at length the investment thesis of his firm. Sramana Mitra: So tell us about Sorenson capital. What is the

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Gabe Larsen, VP of InsideSales Labs (Part 1)

I did a startup in the area of Artificial Intelligence-driven Sales Prospecting in 1997. Much water has flown under the proverbial bridge. This discussion takes us to the state of the art, twenty years later. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to InsideSales. Gabe Larsen: Thanks for having

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Bootstrapping From Romania: Marius Hanganu, CEO of Tremend (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Marius has built a services company from Romania to over $5 million in revenue. Now, he is trying to bootstrap a product using the services business. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,

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