Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ohad Maislish, CEO of env0 (Part 1)

Ohad talks about trends and open problems within the DevOps space. This is a deeply technical conversation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to env0.

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Catching Up On Readings: VC Funding Q3 2021

This report from Crunchbase News analyzes the trends in global venture funding, which hit a peak of $160 billion in the third quarter of 2021. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: We are doing an accelerator with Datastax. They manage the whole Cassandra stack. Their value proposition is the same – real-time, scalable, high availability, and high velocity processing of information from IoT. Does that make you competitors of Cassandra? Prashant Kumar: Suppose AT&T wants to use Cassandra, we can push data into Cassandra.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 5)

Stuart Udell: I have the pleasure to be one of only two members of the EdTech community who are part of the American Association of School Administrators’ new commission for student-centered and equity-focused education. The goal of that organization is to create a blueprint for the future of American education. While there was a lot

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Your use case is quite broad-based. You’re focused on the telecom vertical, but the use cases are broad. It’s not productized. You’re providing professional services style of use cases on top of a common data handling platform. Prashant Kumar: Yes. We are like SAP for telcos. The platform is agnostic to any vertical.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: We’re hearing a lot about going into accounts through the teacher network. It seems to be working really well. You’re reinforcing the point by getting products in the hands of teachers through some sort of a freemium model and getting people to start looking at the product. There’s a virality to this. It

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Has Your Startup Been Validated?

Are customers paying for your product or service? If not, your business has not yet been validated. The One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) virtual accelerator teaches entrepreneurs how to validate their businesses with paying customers step-by-step. Even if you are bootstrapping your startup with a paycheck, we’d be right there with you, every step

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Casewise from London and Scaling in the US

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Alexandre Wentzo is the former CEO of Casewise, an enterprise software company that started in London and scaled in the US. The company was self-financed and did $24 Million in revenue when we spoke in 2015. Our discussion focuses on some of the nuances of starting

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