Colors: Rice Terraces, Reflections

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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Holleran of Cloud Apps Capital Partners (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about a few of your portfolio companies. What have you invested in that you feel really good about? What did you see in these companies that really captured your attention? You gave us one example to begin with. So give us a little bit more color on these companies that you

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Building a Virtual Company to $20 Million: Rob Cheng, CEO of PC Pitstop (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course. Rob figured out the joys of virtual companies back in 1999. Today, he runs a 65-person virtual company that makes $20 million in revenue. Wonderful story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2019: Amplify.ai, Palo Alto, CA

According to Statistics MRC, the global contact center market was estimated to be $26 billion in 2018. Amplify.ai claims to be the industry’s first and only AI-driven engagement platform that amplifies customer engagement with immersive and persistent conversations. Its end-to-end platform offers tools to measure, optimize and manage the full lifecycle of a brand experience.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Holleran of Cloud Apps Capital Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Now let’s tie this into the investment strategies that you are following. What kind of cloud companies appeal to you? Of course, you want a venture scale category. That’s table stakes, otherwise, you don’t want to do the kind of investing that you’re doing. But within that, we’re looking at a very mature

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck

As I started analyzing various paths to success via bootstrapping, one became absolutely obvious: holding onto a job and doing a startup part time. We gave this a name: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, and published a book on the subject: Entrepreneur Journeys Bootstrapping With A Paycheck (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)

Vidyo Follows an API Strategy

A recent Global Market Insights report estimates the global video conferencing market to grow more than 10% annually to $20 billion by 2024. But video conferences are just one of the reasons why video services are used in organizations. According to a Market Study Report, the Enterprise Video market encompasses other end-to-end solutions that enable

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Arihant Patni of Ideaspring Capital (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: If you were to assess, how many enterprise software companies that fit your thesis are operating in the market currently? What would be that number? Is it like thousands of companies? Tens of thousands of companies? What are we talking about? Arihant Patni: We definitely have thousands of companies. This is in the

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