Oracle Focuses on Cloud Native Applications

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) continues to struggle to meet market expectations. The recently reported second quarter results missed revenue forecasts despite beating earnings. The market was not pleased, and the stock fell 5% post the result announcement.

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Roundtable Recap: December 19 – Wisdom for Startups Selling Deeptech to Enterprises

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Karthee Madasamy, Founder and Managing Partner at Mobile Foundation Ventures. Karthee and I discussed issues related to startups selling deeptech to enterprises. Find Me Parking As for pitches, first up today was Prashant Patil from Pune, India, pitching a concept-stage app for real time parking availability.

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468th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 468th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, December 19, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Building a Capital Efficient Startup from Nashville: David Stange, CEO of Beachy (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Where has Tennessee been an advantage? It sounds like you’re not scaling on the basis of these telephone calls. But you had to pound the pavements from a sales point of view through an online channel. David Stange: Yes. Nashville has been an advantage for us because we have direct  flights to every

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468th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 468th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, December 19 at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Upwork Focuses on Enterprise

According to a recent report by Payoneer, earnings for freelancers in the US grew by 78% in 2018, making it the fastest growing freelance market in the world. The growth of freelancers is attributed to organizations wanting to employ contractual employees to avoid fixed costs and the increasing supply of professionals who treat freelancing as

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PaaS: Bootstrapping by Piggybacking

We’ve discussed all kinds of creative bootstrapping mechanisms in this series. My #BigIdeas2020 contribution is yet another technique that I believe would be particularly relevant and powerful going forward.

Building a Capital Efficient Startup from Nashville: David Stange, CEO of Beachy (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: It’s B2C? David Stange: B2B. Our product is strictly B2B. We have a B2B2C element. We currently have hundreds of hotels that use the Beachy system. It’s a three-part solution. We have an integrated online booking engine. When I make my hotel reservation, I can see a map and I’m prompted to reserve

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