Sramana Mitra: From a strategic planning point of view, you have to look at where you are, where your market is, where the competition is, and figure out the priorities and market drivers. It’s true that everything works and everything doesn’t; but you have to make choices and decisions, and those other factors drive decision
Sramana Mitra: What happens next? Derek Steer: When you raise money from a venture firm, you show them an optimistic projection of the business and then you are expected to hit it. I remember the key moments clearly but the day-to-day memory of May 2015 is lost. If I sum it up into what happens
D2L CEO John Baker shares a terrific story of bootstrapped entrepreneurship in EdTech. The company also has a great PaaS strategy. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? John Baker: I’m based in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. I
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David Barrett: When it comes to the platforms, I’d be curious to see if a major value of one the platforms is reaching existing customers. One of the major ways of starting a new business is to reach new customers that are currently underserved. Can you use the Salesforce platform to go after a market
During this week’s roundtable, we had a discussion on my article, 8 Startup Ideas for the Post COVID World. Travel project Abe Lederman from Los Alamos, New Mexico, is considering two of them, and we discussed both in some detail: Facilitating Travel Experiences Distributing the Workforce Abe is both an alum of the 1Mby1M Premium
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Sramana Mitra: What did you learn about pricing? What were people willing to pay and how were people willing to pay for your product? What signals were emerging? Derek Steer: The biggest challenge we had was when people looked at Mode at first. We made this product that targets analysts and data scientists as the