Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from New Jersey: Suuchi Ramesh, CEO of Suuchi (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is a wonderful bootstrapping with a paycheck story of a really smart, scrappy entrepreneur. 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?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Prem Jain and Soni Jiandani, Co-Founders of Pensando Systems (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I followed Andiamo quite closely. I have a question in the model that you have fine tuned because of your very long relationship with Cisco. How do you set these spin-ins and spin-outs? To the extent that it is comfortable for your to answer, how do you handle these negotiations with Cisco? Prem

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Startup Ideas for the Post Covid World: Meaningful Friendships Through Literature and Film

In December 2017, I wrote a piece called Let’s Go Beyond Superficial Virtual Interactions in 2018 encouraging my readers to look for opportunities to interact more in person through meaningful activities. I shared my own experience with our literary group Caravanserai Literati. At the end of 2019, I published our Literati Reading List as my

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Thursday, July 2 – 492nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 492nd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, July 2, 2020, 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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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Prem Jain and Soni Jiandani, Co-Founders of Pensando Systems (Part 1)

Cisco’s legendary MPLS team – Mario Mazzola, Prem Jain, Luca Cafiero, and Soni Jiandani – have been behind many of the company’s key innovations. Here, Prem and Soni discuss their newest venture, Pensando Systems.

Covid Crisis: A Summary

Friends, we’re all struggling to get our arms around the Covid crisis. I suggest you listen to this video webinar from my friend Anne DeGheest. Anne pioneered the HealthTech or Digital Health space as a healthcare executive, an entrepreneur, angel investor, corporate advisor and mentor capitalist. She is the founder of HealthTech Capital and MedStars.

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Jeff Zhou, CEO of Fig (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Given the situation that there’s 30 million people unemployed in America, it will take them a while to find their way back into the workforce. What would your risk model do when you apply that to this category of people? Are they not going to qualify for credit or is there a way?

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Catching Up On Readings: Global Games 2020

This feature from TechCrunch covers a report from Newzoo that expects the global video games market to grow 9.3% to $159.3 billion. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.