Roundtable Recap: February 6 – Validation Should Be Done with Potential Customers, NOT Advisors

We had two pitches today. Etelier First up, was Sean Dehan from Austin, Texas, pitching Etelier, a membership-based luxury product marketplace. We discussed how to introduce a membership model. Applicature Next, Ian Arden from Palo Alto, California, pitched Applicature, a marketplace for VCs to access LPs and startups to access VCs. I advised Ian to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Dell’s an OEM relationship? Ash Ashutosh: It’s a reseller/selling partner relationship. Their sellers can sell it and they get paid for it. They don’t rebrand the Actifio software. They rebrand the whole product. The last partnership is on the systems integrator side with TCS. Because it’s all about data and transformation, we needed

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Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 4)

Abhinav Asthana: Postman is a complete platform for API development. You can collaborate with hundreds of people on the Postman platform. All of that happened through this continuous learning and shipping process. Along the way, we have also looked at how to design our pricing models to be very much in line with the value

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You said you have 3,600 customers. If you think about the industry trend, you have modernized the use of data in enterprises quite significantly. What is the adoption level in your target market of your kind of technology? Is it early adopters? Is it early majority? Ash Ashutosh: We’re probably getting to the

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Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Did you make any moves on the monetization of this half a million users? Abhinav Asthana: Not really. We used to have an in-app purchase. It used to be for $10 at that time. We eventually made it free. We started the company formally at the end of 2014. We were just monetizing

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: One of the things I’m hearing in your description is that there is the infrastructure layer of making this data available. Then there is an application layer to make use of that data. Is that a correct observation? Ash Ashutosh: Yes. In fact, there are three layers. One is the data virtualization layer,

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