Colors: Red Barn in the Snow, New England Night

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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Rendezvous Online Recording: October 23, 2019

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: Rendezvous Online with Sramana Mitra Oct 23, 2019

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping a Marketplace to Over $10 Million

Home Alliance CEO Sardor Umrdinov has bootstrapped a marketplace of home appliance technicians to over $10 million in revenue. Great story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Sardor Umrdinov: I was born and raised in Uzbekistan. I

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Should We STOP Bargaining, START Paying More?

Human beings love bargains. There is something hardwired into our brains that makes us seek a good deal. Some cultures, especially the Indian and Chinese, have an extraordinarily sharp elbow around this tendency. But most human beings have it to some degree. I have been thinking about Conscious Capitalism for a while. As you know,

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Cloud Stocks: Will Salesforce Acquire DocuSign?

According to a recent report, Salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM) was the leader in the global CRM market with 19.5% market share in 2018. Its closest rival SAP was a distant second with 8.3% market share. Analysts believe that 75% of the global spending on CRM in 2019 will be on SaaS-based products, compared with 73% last

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Cloud Stocks: Workday Targeting Procure-to-Pay Cycle

Cloud-based financial and human resources enterprise services provider Workday (NYSE: WDAY) recently reported its third quarter results that unsurprisingly surpassed all market expectations. But the company’s outlook for the next fiscal was disappointing and that sent the stock tumbling. Post the result announcement, the stock fell 5% in the after-hours trading session.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: EarnUp CEO Matthew Cooper and President Nadim Homsany (Part 4)

Matthew Cooper: Easing that burden to keep you compliant is big. There are some new regulations like the California privacy regulations which will make everybody’s lives much more painful.

Afiniti is Mulling Over the Next Big Step

According to a Markets and Markets report, the global AI industry is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 37% to $190.6 billion by 2025 driven by the continued adoption of image recognition, speech recognition, and data mining services. Washington DC-based Afiniti is a Unicorn player in this space that is expected to list soon.