Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Europe: Gero Decker, CEO of Signavio (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How did the 20,000 people find out about it? Gero Decker: We didn’t know how they had access to the system. We searched the web for our project. We found out that a major news outlet had blogged about us and wrote an article saying something like “This is the future of applications.”

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Gus Tai of Trinity Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The whole experience of curated personal shopping is just barely starting to come into the fore. The computer science required to power that is going to deliver a very different kind of experience once that starts to come into existence. As Gus said, is it a large enough segment? Fashion is a gigantic

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8 Investors Discuss Seed Financing for B2B and B2C Startups in Podcasts

Different investors define seed for B2B and B2C in terms of metrics in different ways. A lot of funds are categorically stating that they want to see a certain amount of monthly recurring revenue already achieved before they’re willing to invest. That amount could be $40,000 or it could be $80,000, but there are specific

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Julien Nguyen of IT Farm (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The next question I want to ask you is about unicorn mania. You said you have three. You actually experienced being a seed investor in companies that have gone on to raise very large amounts of money at very large valuations. As a seed investor, you could get buried under later-stage liquidation preferences.

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Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Europe: Gero Decker, CEO of Signavio (Part 1)

Very few software companies have been built from Europe with a global footprint. I am about to bring you the story of one that is growing nicely. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Gero Decker:

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Catching Up On Readings: I&O Skills Gap

This report from Gartner says that two-thirds of organizations are not adequately addressing the infrastructure and operations (I&O) skills gaps that will impede their digital business initiatives. It forecasts that IT technical specialist hires will be less than over 5% by 2019. Moreover, 40% of IT staff will hold multiple roles by 2021, most of which will be business-related rather

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Gus Tai of Trinity Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The reason why I ask this question is to explain how a VC looks at an investment opportunity. Mark Vadon had his own investment thesis but Trinity Ventures and Gus also had their own investment thesis. The two thesis merged for an investment to happen. I’ve said this many a time. Over 99%

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Julien Nguyen of IT Farm (Part 3)

Julien Nguyen: Alzheimer’s certainly is a huge problem. It’s very important for everybody. It’s even more important because drug development to go against Alzheimers has hit a huge wall. All the major drugs have failed so far. One of the key reasons they have failed is they don’t know exactly how the patients are doing

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