Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Texas

We have done several spotlight posts on entrepreneurship in different parts of the world: Colorado, Utah, Czech Republic, Florida, Illinois, Arizona. Today, we will look at the entrepreneurship eco-system in Texas. Among our earliest Entrepreneur Journeys stories was that of Manoj Saxena and Webify that IBM acquired back in 2006. The presence of IBM and

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Innovation and disruption: Forces Turned on and off by human beings

By Guest Author Marylene Delbourg-Delphis In her new book, Everybody Wants to Love Their Job: Rebuilding Trust and Culture, Marylene Delbourg-Delphis reflects on the demise and death of once-giants. Companies either fail or succeed. It’s just a simple truth. There were certainly plenty of causes for the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, but the primary

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Catching Up On Readings: Startup Battlefield Berlin 2018

This feature from TechCrunch covers the highlights of the Startup Battlefield contest in Disrupt Berlin 2018 held last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shuly Galili of UpWest Labs (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Are they coming to you with just the concept? Are they coming to you with some idea about what customers are looking for? What tells you that you want to give $250,000 to these two guys? Shuly Galili: Founders typically find us through our network. For many of them, they understand that UpWest

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Flavio Gomes, CEO of LogiSense (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’d like you to do some use cases for us. We understand how this plays out. Pick a customer or customer category and walk us through how this works. Flavio Gomes: In the industrial IoT, we have a customer that is an IoT enabler. They do device management and connectivity solutions. They supply

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Grant Ingersoll, CTO of Lucidworks (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of infrastructure are your clients running these days? I imagine you’re going after the larger e-commerce sites because the smaller ones don’t have the infrastructure to run these kinds of stuff. Grant Ingersoll: We scale pretty nicely with the size of the organization. A good chunk of the top 100 or

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shuly Galili of UpWest Labs (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 Shuly Galili was recorded in October 2018. Shuly Galili, Founding Partner, UpWest Labs, talks to us about pre-seed and seed investments in the Israel – Silicon Valley corridor. Sramana Mitra: Tell us

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Flavio Gomes, CEO of LogiSense (Part 1)

Differential pricing based on differential usage of devices. Fascinating conversation! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to LogiSense. Flavio Gomes: I’m the Founder and CEO of LogiSense Corporation. My business has been around for just a bit over 20 years. It was officially incorporated in 1998, but its

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