Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Prashant Srivastava, CEO of Evive (Part 1)

Prashant has built a very interesting benefits optimization company to over $30 million in revenue. He shares insights on how he sees the benefits optimization space is evolving with the application of predictive analytics. Very cool conversation! Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Evive. What are you doing? What trends are you aligning with? Prashant Srivastava:

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Steve Gross, CEO of Calvert Education (Part 1)

A very interesting discussion on the pedagogical gap in online-offline hybrid learning methodology for younger kids. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Calvert Education. Steve Gross: Calvert is a very established organization. It was founded in the early 1900s. It’s probably the world’s first distance learning organization.

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Catching Up On Readings: 2018 IPO Prospects

This feature from VentureBeat looks at the most likely venture backed tech companies that could go public in 2018. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Genesis to Acquisition: Mike Morris, CEO of Topcoder (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What happens after that? Mike Morris: I can’t be specific about revenue after this point. This is where it gets interesting. At this point, we were cash-flow conscious. We weren’t doing all the things that we needed to do to grow more rapidly. We needed outside capital at this point. We had a

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380th Roundtable Recording On January 4, 2018: With Laurel Touby, Supernode Ventures

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Genesis to Acquisition: Mike Morris, CEO of Topcoder (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: At what point did you find a monetization model that was meaningful and that could carry the business? Mike Morris: 2004 was when we found the monetization model. Sramana Mitra: What was that model? Mike Morris: The model was going to customers, finding custom software development projects that needed to be built, and then

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Investors Discuss E-Commerce Startup Trends in Podcasts

Entrepreneurs working on e-commerce startups face unique challenges today. You can learn more about the trends investors specializing in e-commerce startup financing are seeing by listening to the following 30-minute podcast interviews. These VCs and seed investors also discuss the key indicators they look for in the startups they invest in. Daniel Gulati, Principal and

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Amir Banifatemi of K5 Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: LinkedIn was a perfect channel to scale that company. Amir Banifatemi: LinkedIn was a perfect channel. It had Initial property and strong momentum and growth into a much, much larger ecosystem globally. Another example which we’re still working on is Momentum Machine, a hardware company. It is based in San Francisco and builds

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