Roundtable Recap: August 29 – Startups Spanning Indonesia, Nigeria, Guatemala and a YCombinator Case Study

During this week’s roundtable, we had Ryan Chan, CEO and Founder at UpKeep Maintenance Management. Ryan has bootstrapped with a paycheck and subsequently, gone through YCombinator, followed by raising $13 Million. Great case study. Travling As for the pitches, up first we had Daniel Agung Pratana from Indonesia pitch Travling, a local travel app.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alain le Loux of Cottonwood Technology Fund (Part 4)

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Veeva is Cashing in on Vault Products

According to a Global Market Insights report, the global healthcare cloud computing market is estimated to grow 15.5% annually over the next few years to reach $55 billion by 2025. Pleasanton, California-based Veeva (NYSE: VEEV) recently reported its second quarter results that continued to surpass all market expectations.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Gregory Marino, CEO of Kaplan Higher Education (Part 1)

Purdue University has recently acquired Kaplan University to create Purdue University Global, one of the pioneers in online learning. Read on to understand why. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you as well as to Kaplan. Gregory Marino: I just celebrated my 26th year with Kaplan. My resume reads newspaper boy and

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alain le Loux of Cottonwood Technology Fund (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What differences are you seeing in the trends in Europe versus America? Alain le Loux: For follow-on rounds in the US, the money is easier than in Europe. In Europe, only less than 10% of Series A investments raise a B round. That’s a pity. It looks like there is more money available

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VMWare’s Shopping Spree Fails to Impress the Stock Market

Virtualization infrastructure provider VMWare (NYSE:VMW) has gone on a massive shopping spree to expand its cloud portfolio. Within the last few months, VMWare has made several big acquisitions to continue to drive product and market growth. The company recently also announced its second quarter results that surpassed all market expectations, but the stock fell 9%

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