Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Jeff Wilkins, CEO of Motili (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to hit a million in revenue? Jeff Wilkins: Two months. Sramana Mitra: What sized contracts were you doing? Jeff Wilkins: We started as a reactive company. A client or one of their tenants had a problem with one of their HVAC units. In the early days, they’d

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Catching Up On Readings: Trustworthy AI Systems

This feature from The New York Times looks at how trustworthy AI systems can be built using the concepts of time, space, and casuality. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Eyal Shinar, CEO of Fundbox (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Why are you not involved in transactions where it’s a large company buying from a small company? Eyal Shinar: Because of the point you just raised. Interestingly enough, some larger companies, not as big as Apple, reach out to Fundbox as a seller. We already have agreements in place, but it’s not public

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Jeff Wilkins, CEO of Motili (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s get to the genesis of Motili. What were you thinking? Why did you start this company? What did you want to do with it? Jeff Wilkins: I was selling another company. There was a product registration business that I had called Interaxis here in Denver. Our clients were consumer durable manufacturers like

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Eyal Shinar, CEO of Fundbox (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What percentage of sellers are working with you in this mode? What is the penetration of this kind of technology in the B2B sellers’ world? What percentage of the sellers in the world are working with Fundbox or competitors today?

Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Jeff Wilkins, CEO of Motili (Part 4)

Jeff Wilkins: It was fascinating to see that one virtue of being lean was that you’re going out. In some cases, we’ve even got companies that had such a pain point to pay us for creating a solution. The challenge is, you need to be able to retain enough rights to the IP so you

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Colors: Vallee de l’Ocre

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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455th Roundtable Recording on September 5, 2019

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