Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Portshift CEO Ran Ilany (Part 1)

This interview puts the spotlight on a highly specialized area of cyber security, identity-based workload protection. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Portshift.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Anand Rajaraman of rocketship.vc (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Anand Rajaraman was recorded in October 2019. Anand Rajaraman, Founding Partner at rocketship.vc, was an early investor in Facebook. Among other things, we discuss how the quality of startups from India has

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Catching Up On Readings: IT Spending 2020

This report from Gartner forecasts the worldwide IT spending to grow 3.4% to $3.9 trillion in 2020 driven by the adoption of SaaS. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Portshift CEO Ran Ilany (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Going back to the ecosystem, where do you sit in the ecosystem? Ran Ilany: We start with the vendors for container and security solutions that focus on scanning. We assume that what goes to the runtime is clean. Then we provide the runtime protection based on those signatures that we generate that are

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstraps with a Paycheck to $15M from Tennessee

GreenPal CEO Gene Caballero shares a fantastic story of a founder duo bootstrapping with a paycheck, now growing from $5M to $15M in one year, with a virtual team of freelancers. Your classic 21st century internet business. No outside financing whatsoever! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Francisco Jardim of SP Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Why did they choose to go in that direction? What was the draw for them? Francisco Jardim: The same thing that drew us. First of all, it’s purpose-driven. It’s a representative part of our economy. At the same time, it’s a sector that is highly exposed and volatile to all these external issues.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Clara Piloto, Director of Global Programs at MIT Professional Education (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Summarize, as a last point, how you position vis-a-vis edX. When you go out to the world, how do you position MIT Professional Education versus edX? Clara Piloto: I’m going to focus on the MOOCs that edX is doing. They’re doing a lot of really cool things. They’re also expanding into professional education.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Francisco Jardim of SP Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What is the limited partner scenario for AgTech? This $75 million and the rounds before, is there a set of limited partners that are particularly interested in AgTech? Francisco Jardim: We have two anchors that are very large agriculture multinationals who have been active in the corporate venture sectors. These two guys are

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