Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Allied Universal CIO Mark Mullison (Part 1)

Mark takes us through some interesting use cases in safety and security. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and to Allied Universal. Mark Mullison: I’m the Chief Information Officer for Allied Universal. Allied Universal is a security services firm that provides staffing and technology services that help to drive better safety

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Catching Up On Readings: Nobel Prizes 2019

This feature from Time looks at the Nobel Prize winners for this year in the fields of Physics, Medicine, Chemistry, Literature, and Peace. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bridging Complex Technology To Market: Lior Gal, CEO of Excelero (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You have done this strategy in a textbook case study way. How many verticals and how many use cases have you gone after? What was the sequence of how you layered these different use cases along each of those use cases? Lior Gal: There is some strategy and tactical work. For us, the

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infinicept CEO Todd Ablowitz (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The lending trend is everywhere. I know that Square is offering small business financing. There are FinTech companies that are focused on giving loans. Intuit, for instance, is offering both payment and financing. What other examples do you have of the small business financing being offered by payment processors?

460th Roundtable Recording on October 10, 2019: With Guillermo Gaspart, ByHours.com

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October 16 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss How to Bootstrap First and Raise Money Later

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required,

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Bridging Complex Technology To Market: Lior Gal, CEO of Excelero (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back one step. Winning big customers like PayPal, what was the pitch that you made to let you start working on their technology stack? Lior Gal: It’s the same pitch, but the pitch isn’t the trick if you can call it a trick. The process is, you need to identify which

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Infinicept CEO Todd Ablowitz (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You provide Escrow-type of service? Todd Ablowitz: We provide just SaaS tools. Our customers can send us the transaction information. We don’t process the transaction. We don’t get into the chain. We teach them how to do it. We enable it and make it better, but we don’t compete with our customers. We

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