Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from New Jersey: Suuchi Ramesh, CEO of Suuchi (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Where is the domain knowledge for supply chain coming from in your team? Suuchi Ramesh: My domain knowledge with supply chain is with respect to the data piece of it. Then of course I had the opportunity to study supply chain from a data standpoint with the companies that we had sold predictive

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Prem Jain and Soni Jiandani, Co-Founders of Pensando Systems (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Help me highlight whatever other innovations and thought leadership you’re bringing to this venture. I don’t know your innovation portfolio. Give me some guidance on where else we should take this conversation. Prem Jain: I can give my perspective, and I think Soni can add also. When we started looking at it at

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from New Jersey: Suuchi Ramesh, CEO of Suuchi (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Before you quit your day job, what was the timeframe between your coming up with this idea, deciding to start this company, and quitting your job? Suuchi Ramesh: The idea took shape about 18 months before I quit my day job. By that time, Suuchi Inc became really tangible. It was in the

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Rendezvous Online Recording: June 30, 2020

Sharing insights and answering questions from entrepreneurs on building successful startups. Some audience questions answered by Sramana: – What are your thoughts on the impact of the Coronavirus on the global economy? – Do you have startup ideas for artists and art collectors in the post-Covid world? – How did you start your own startup?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Prem Jain and Soni Jiandani, Co-Founders of Pensando Systems (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s actually talk about some of those use cases. One of the questions that I’m wrestling with in my mind is what architecture are we talking about. Is it a public cloud scenario or private cloud scenario? Soni Jiandani: Initial customer base consisted of enterprise customers like Goldman Sachs. They talked about how

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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?

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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