Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Raj Koneru, CEO of Kore.ai (Part 1)

Raj is building his fifth company, a conversational AI platform and solutions venture. I really like the PaaS strategy. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the company. 

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Entrepreneurship in Heavy-Duty Technology: Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You’re positioned as a middleware?  Yuval Rooz: Exactly. That plays very well in the market.  Sramana Mitra: You did this repositioning in 2018?  Yuval Rooz: Yes. 

Catching Up On Readings: Future of B2B Sales Interactions

This report from Gartner says that 80% of B2B sales interactions between buyers and suppliers will be through digital channels as millennials mature into key decision-making positions. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Entrepreneurship in Heavy-Duty Technology: Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: At this point, did you have outside financing? What is happening on the financing side? Yuval Rooz: We only raised funding from some of the early investors and friends and family.  Sramana Mitra: How much money was in the company? Yuval Rooz: I think in the early days we brought in $2 million

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later from Houston: Onit CEO Eric Elfman (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Was it an all cash acquisition, cash in stock, or pure stock? Eric Elfman: I’d like to think that we did what K1 did for us. It was a mix of cash and stock. I needed their founders on board.  Sramana Mitra: What is COVID doing to you?

Entrepreneurship in Heavy-Duty Technology: Digital Asset CEO Yuval Rooz (Part 4)

Yuval Rooz: For the past five years, we’ve been developing an open-source language just to describe the interconnected application. The second component of our product is compatibility. When you want to run these applications, there are all kinds of technologies that you can run it on. Let’s take the analogy of Java language. You can

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502nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Roman Kikta, Mobility Ventures

Roman Kikta is Managing Partner and Founder at Mobility Ventures. Roman discusses his firm’s investment thesis.

Colors: Monsoon in Goa, White Church II

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and

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