Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Ondrej Vlcek, CEO of Avast (Part 1)

In this edition of the TLCS interview series, we discuss the immense vulnerabilities in B2C security. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience briefly to Avast. We’ve covered the company before and we’ll put that in context. From your perspective, do provide a little bit of summary and also a bit about yourself.

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Kris Lahiri, Chief Security Officer, Egnyte (Part 6)

Kris Lahiri: We’ve had a company that specializes in just drone pictures. They take live pictures of a site by drones and keeps that integrated. It uses this as an update to see how that project is progressing and roll that up into whatever reporting they want. It doesn’t have to separately figure out what

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Best of Bootstrapping: Ownership Matters

For those of you rushing to raise venture capital with a deck of slides or a minimum viable product, let me offer you a challenge: How can you get to a $20 million pre-money valuation in Series A, raise $5 million, and keep control of 80% of the equity? That’s what Christian Chabot, founder of

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Luis Gutierrez Roy of Telegraph Hill Capital (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What about other countries in Southern Europe? What else are you tracking and where do you see activities that are interesting? Luis Gutierrez Roy: We just made an investment in a company that was actually started in the US but eventually moved to Bulgaria. The founding team was in the US. When they

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For Bottomline Technologies, AI and ML May Not be Enough

According to a McKinsey report, the global payments market is estimated to grow from $1.9 trillion in 2017 at 9% CAGR to $2.9 trillion by 2022. Portsmouth-based Bottomline Technologies (Nasdaq: EPAY) is a leading player in the B2B world of digital payments.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Kris Lahiri, Chief Security Officer, Egnyte (Part 5)

Kris Lahiri: There is another angle which is what you were referring to. I’ll bring up Egnyte in the life sciences space. Nowadays, there’s a lot of very serious work being done by life sciences companies that are using either genomics or other types of DNA sequencing, which needs a huge amount of elastic compute.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Luis Gutierrez Roy of Telegraph Hill Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In the history of venture capital, the traditional venture capital model has been that in your portfolio of ten companies, nine will fail and one is a homerun. That’s how you make your money. Therefore, you are trying to find ten companies that you can somehow believe can be unicorns. Of course, nine

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September 4 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss the Probability of Raising Funds for Your Startup

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required,

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