Taking on Giants in the Contact Center Space: UJET CEO, Anand Janefalkar (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What exactly was the form that you were offering and was going to take to address all the issues and pain points that you just talked about? Anand Janefalkar: It was to completely redesign the architecture. After talking to industry experts and to people that have sold to a lot of contact centers,

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434th Roundtable Recording on March 7, 2019: With Rahul Chowdhri, Stellaris Venture Partners

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Colors: Snow Storm, Monochrome

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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March 14 – 435th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 435th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 14, 2019, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/4 p.m. CET/8:30 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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Ondrej Bartos of Credo Ventures (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 Ondrej Bartos was recorded in January 2019. Ondrej Bartos, General Partner at Prague-based Credo Ventures, focuses on investing in Central European startups. Their major success story is UiPath in robotics processes automation

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What More Can Palo Alto Acquire?

Last week, Santa Clara-based Palo Alto Networks (NYSE:PANW) announced its second quarter results that surpassed market expectations and sent the stock soaring to a record high. Its stock climbed 11% in reaction to the result. The company has been growing steadily not only through innovative product releases, but also by following an aggressive acquisition strategy.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Blitzscaling vs. Bootstrapping

You must have read something or the other about Blitzscaling, the hypergrowth phenomenon that Reid Hoffman has been championing: What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what separates the startups that get disrupted and disappear from

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Taking on Giants in the Contact Center Space: UJET CEO, Anand Janefalkar (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to? Anand Janefalkar: It brings us up to 2011. Motorola was an amazing company to be an employee. It was a little difficult to be a consumer. I got very jaded with a little bit of inaccurate marketing. Phone’s not selling to the potential of the

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