Catching Up On Readings: Thanksgiving 2019

Happy Thanksgiving to all our readers! This feature from TechCrunch looks at the publishing trends in the third quarter of 2019 when the top 1% of publishers globally accounted for a whopping 80% of the total 29.6 billion app downloads. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Bootstrapping a Tech Company by an English Major: Kevin Groome, Founder of Pica9 (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I’d like to cover this CEO transition, which is always a tricky thing to do. For founders to let go and bring on a new CEO is a tricky transition. How did you do it? What wisdom do you have to offer for people who are trying to do that? Kevin Groome: Let

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Thanksgiving Meditations: Colors

My last thank you note goes to my readers, especially those who are participating in the Colors series. This year, I started publishing a new series on LinkedIn, Facebook, and my blog called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and

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Colors: Green Village in the Snow

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – a painting, a poem, a piece

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Bootstrapping a Tech Company by an English Major: Kevin Groome, Founder of Pica9 (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What’s the next major inflection point? Kevin Groome: The introduction of Campaign Drive. We kept on building the software and getting more of our legacy customers over to the SaaS platform, which was an enormous risk point. By 2014, we were able to say that we had 90% of our legacy customers on

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Thanksgiving Meditations: Dance

My second thank you note is for regaining something unexpected, something that I value tremendously: dance. I studied Indian classical dance since I was four years old. I stopped studying when I came to college in the United States. In college, however, I choreographed and performed about five times a year.  When I went to

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Best of Bootstrapping: From a Small Town to $12 Million

What a wonderful story of an ecommerce company bootstrapping to $12 million from a small town called Horsens in Denmark. All of the 60 employees working under TrendHim CEO Sebastian Petersen work out of Horsens currently. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,

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Thanksgiving Meditations: Fire

This has been a year full of curve balls. On the afternoon of April 2, I was getting ready to head out of the house to a meeting at Facebook. My husband, Dominique, had already left for a meeting at Morgan Stanley. I was upstairs. The fire alarm went off. I thought to myself, “Another

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