Catching Up On Readings: IBM Think 2019

This feature from TechTarget covers the main highlights of this year’s edition of IBM Think held in San Francisco last week. The spotlight at the conference was on data and AI analytics. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How do you get things off the ground? Camilla Valentin: We made a business friend. All three of us had many years of business experience. We had some idea of what was needed. This was our first own startup. We found some good templates online that we applied to generating the business plan

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February 20 – 432nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 432nd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Wednesday, February 20, 2019, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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431st Roundtable Recording on February 14, 2019: With Yash Hemaraj, Arka Venture Labs and BGV

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 2)

Camilla Ley Valentine: I moved into a company called EDS at that time. Now, it’s been acquired by HP. I managed a bunch of projects. A lot of them had to with the transportation industry. Going from there, I went into the company and met Niels and Martin, my two Co-Founders of Queue-it. This was

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alireza Rahnema of 7 Gate Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How are people thinking about this unicorn versus non-unicorn versus niches? How is the Canadian investment in general thinking about this? Alireza Rahnema: I’ve work about this when it comes to different scene between startup the ecosystem. I’ve spent half of my time here and half of my time down San Francisco. When

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrap First and Raise Money Later

I wrote a book called Billion Dollar Unicorns a few years back. Writing this book took me through the extensive process of talking to entrepreneurs who have built tech companies with valuations above a billion dollars. While there is a tremendous amount of serendipity involved in any extraordinary success story, one recurring theme comes up

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Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 1)

Camille tells a wonderful story of capital-efficient entrepreneurship, including scaling a company born in Denmark that now has 40% of its business in the US. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Camilla Ley Valentin: I come

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