Billion Dollar Unicorns: Apptio Decides to Go Back to Being Privately Held

IT Business Management firm Apptio has had a roller coaster ride in the past few years. Founded in 2007, Apptio had listed on the Nasdaq in 2016. The company continued to gain valuation while being listed. But last year, it agreed to be acquired by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in a move that

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Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: At what point did the US business start happening in your evolution? You started in 2010. At what time did the US business take off? Camilla Ley Valentin: I would say two to three years into the company. Sramana Mitra: What strategic nuance did you make to catalyze the growth of the US

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Wednesday, 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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Navid Alipour of Analytics Ventures (Part 2)

Navid Alipour: Our LP’s said “We want you to start other companies that are applying artificial intelligence, machine learning, and deep learning to clean structure data.” By applying this AI, you can make a prediction or you can detect something that doesn’t belong. By doing one of those things, you’re going to increase revenues, decrease

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Pluralsight to Focus on Enterprise

According to a Research and Markets report, the global education technology market is estimated to grow 15% annually during the period 2018 to 2024. The growth is expected to be driven by academic institutions who are providing off-campus licenses for software, repositories for courses and study materials, and online course catalogs. Cedar Valley, Utah-based EdTech

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Bootstrapping from Denmark: Camilla Ley Valentin, Co-Founder of Queue-It (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the average size of each customer? What is an average deal size? I’m trying to understand your business. Is it a business that generates $2,000 or $200,000 per customer? Camilla Ley Valentin: What I can say is that our customers range. An example of a small case could be a university

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Navid Alipour of Analytics Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Navid Alipour was recorded in January 2019. Navid Alipour, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Analytics Ventures, talks about their AI-focused venture studio in San Diego. Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Analytics Ventures and

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Indian Robotics Firm GreyOrange Takes on Amazon’s Kiva

According to ResearchAndMarkets, the global inventory robots market is expected to grow at a CAGR of over 13% by 2023 and expected to reach $3.1 billion by 2020. Booming growth of the e-commerce industry comes with its own problems such as rising wages, increasing rivalry, and price wars. To deal with them, retailers are turning

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