Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of Software AG (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I didn’t hear you say anything about independent software vendors building on top of your platform.  Sanjay Brahmawar: I should have mentioned that. We do have a whole ecosystem of ISVs that take the platform capabilities and build their solutions on it. These could be people focusing on specific manufacturing applications or things

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Michael Smerklo, Co-founder and Managing Director at Next Coast Ventures 2021 (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What are some of the companies that you have invested in the themes that are accelerating? What has been their journey? Give us a few examples. Michael Smerklo: One of the examples on the healthcare side is a company called Everlywell in Austin, Texas. We invested in them four years ago. They do

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of Software AG (Part 3)

Sanjay Brahmawar: In terms of the competitive landscape, we would say that one of our prime competitors is PTC. We also have a great relationship with the hyperscalers. Sometimes we do compete with them, but more often we are collaborating for joint solutions to our clients. We offer the IoT layer and the hybrid integration

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Best of Bootstrapping: Solo Founder Bootstrapped Wingify to $7 Million in India

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Paras Chopra is Founder and Chairman of Wingify, a company that builds web analytics and optimization technology to include its flagship product Visual Website Optimizer. Here is our conversation from 2013. Sramana: Paras, let’s start with the very beginning of your story. Where were you born

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May 27 – 532nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 532nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, May 27, 2021, 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 questions. Others

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Michael Smerklo, Co-founder and Managing Director at Next Coast Ventures 2021 (Part 1)

Michael Smerklo is Co-founder and Managing Director at Next Coast Ventures. We have a terrific conversation about a range of issues including solo founders and their ill-treatment by VCs. Sramana Mitra: We are going to start today’s session with a conversation with Micheal Smerkio, co-founder and managing partner at Next Coast Ventures. Welcome back to

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of Software AG (Part 2)

Sanjay Brahmawar: The second is the operational model. You would be familiar with this. A lot of software companies have been dealing with the old model of perpetual license selling. We decided, as part of our strategy, to move and shift to the SaaS model. This is a major shift for the company. It involves

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Roundtable Recap: May 20 – Spotlight on Mental Health

During this week’s roundtable, we zeroed in on a mental health startup. Mental health is seeing a significant uptick in the startup arena currently. Bonding Health Pen King from Sun Valley, Idaho and San Francisco pitched Bonding Heatlh, a digital health startup focused on managing childhood ADHD. You can listen to the recording of this

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