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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470th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

Osayi Igharo, Managing Partner at Ripple VC, discusses startups and venture capital in Africa.

Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: From a product strategy point of view, what did you start building to address that? In an open source mode, what were the pieces that you were putting out there? Abhinav Asthana: We were an open source extension, but mostly, we were seen as a free GUI product back then. Now our philosophy

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February 5 – Rendezvous Meetup to Discuss How to Bootstrap First and Raise Money Later

For entrepreneurs interested to meet and chat with Sramana Mitra in person, please join us for our bi-monthly and informal group meetups. If you are living in the San Francisco Bay Area or are just in town for a visit, we hope you will add these meetups to your calendar and join us. Pre-registration is required, REGISTER

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Actifio CEO Ash Ashutosh (Part 1)

We’ve covered Actifio when it was a much smaller company. Now approaching sustainable profitability and an IPO, the company has scaled heights. Here, we look at the trends in its space. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Actifio. We have covered you before. We have the beginning story. It’s been awhile since

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Scaling with Virality to 9 Million Users: Postman CEO Abhinav Asthana (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Postman has found tremendous adoption among developers through word of mouth. Read on to learn more. 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?

Catching Up On Readings: IPO Recap

This feature from NASDAQ brings the highlights of the five IPOs in the past week. These included the health clinic unicorn One Medical (ONEM) and titan of tin foil Reynolds Consumer Products (REYN). For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

February 6 – 471st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 471st FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, February 6, 2020, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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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