Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You have $10 million in the bank. You started hiring sales people and started putting a process together. Now, let me reask the question. What was the repeatable sales process?Was it that you started putting in a process to take all the leads? Are the free users categorized by companies, company size, and

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446th Roundtable Recording on June 13, 2019: With Francis Simisim, Original Pitch Venture Capital

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Idaptive CEO Danny Kibel (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How do you solve that challenge of the Zero Trust access? How do you tackle it? Danny Kibel: That is based on the basic foundation of Zero Trust. At Idaptive, we verify every user first and foremost. Then we verify that the device they’re using is actually a valid device that can get

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Kevin was also doing YCombinator? Ryan Chan: I was part of the YCombinator class of winter ’17. Sramana Mitra: But you didn’t hire him through YCombinator. You hired him and brought him into your YCombinator membership. Ryan Chan: Right. We went through YCombinator. It was an amazing experience. I got introduced to this

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Colors: Rice Terraces, Autumn

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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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Idaptive CEO Danny Kibel (Part 1)

Danny discusses Zero Trust access management. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Idaptive. Danny Kibel: I’m Danny Kibel. I’m the CEO of Idaptive. Idaptive is a new company that spun out earlier in the year out of Centrify, which is a cyber security leader in the identity and access management

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Best of Bootstrapping: How RainmakerForce CEO Mack Sundaram Bootstrapped Decisively to $5 Million+

Mack has built a successful business optimized for autonomy and profitability. Excellent navigation! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Tell us where you’re from. Where did you grow up? Where were you born and raised? Mack Sundaram: I was born in South India in a village near Chennai. I spent

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June 20 – 447th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 447th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 20, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your

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