Roundtable Recap: June 7 – Investor in Three SaaS Unicorns

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ravi Mohan, Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, a firm that has invested in three SaaS Unicorns. Ravi discussed these investments: Apptio, Anaplan, and Zuora. You will find our entrepreneur Journeys coverage on Anaplan and Apptio here. Social Chains As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Srini

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Jeff Swearingen, CEO of SecureLink (Part 1)

Jeff provides a window into the remote access world through this interview, a world that is vastly more complex today than it used to be. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to SecureLink. Jeff Swearingen: I’m the Co-Founder and CEO of SecureLink. Sramana Mitra: What does SecureLink do?

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: There were a few things you said I want to highlight for our audience. They’re very much in tune with the philosophy that we practice in our program, which is Bootstrap first, and then raise capital. Without capital, MuleSoft validated and they got an immense amount of traction. That definitely is something that

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401st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 401st FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 7, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

401st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 401st FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, June 7, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Paul Daugherty, CTO and Chief Innovation Officer of Accenture (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is your estimate of the timeframe for all this to come into society? Paul Daugherty: It’s a 10 plus year transition. We’re at the very early stages of applying AI. It’s going to take a while for the technology to mature in a lot of areas. It’s going to take time to

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Anne Bonaparte, CEO of Appthority (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch to the 30,000 foot level question. What do you see out there as emerging trends? What are some open problems that you see that if you were starting a company today, you would feel good about solving that problem? Anne Bonaparte: The data explosion is exponential. We see some sophisticated cross-border

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ann Winblad of Hummer Winblad (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You talked about MuleSoft. Let’s take a couple of your companies and drill down and understand your thinking behind why you invested in those opportunities. Obviously today, these are big successes. When you invested, that was not so clear. You must have made a certain analysis of those businesses. What was that thought

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