Best of Bootstrapping: Peruvian Entrepreneur Bootstrapped to $200M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We hear a lot from Indian and Chinese entrepreneurs. We hear some from Europeans. But thus far, not as much from Latin American entrepreneurs. WEI President Belisario Rosas is Peruvian, and is also interested in fostering further entrepreneurship in Latin America. This is our conversation from

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Zetaris CEO Vinay Samuel (Part 3)

Vinay Samuel: Seven years ago, I was sitting in a think tank with a group of people after we had exited. We said, “Do we do another centralized data warehousing platform? Do we do another Green Plum or Vertica?” The future we saw was a future that said, “In our journey, no customer had achieved

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Zetaris CEO Vinay Samuel (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Are you taking this use case and trying to sell this use case to other healthcare providers? Vinay Samuel: Absolutely. Zetaris has been in the market for about seven years. It took us five years to build our technology. In every industry, there’s the top 10 killer use cases that we accelerate. As

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $15M in Three Years

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Extraordinarily tight, disciplined strategy and execution has enabled Connatix Founder CEO David Kashak to build a tremendously fast growth company with a small team. A lot to learn from our conversation in 2016. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Zetaris CEO Vinay Samuel (Part 1)

A very interesting innovation in data virtualization. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as your company. Vinay Samuel: I’m the CEO and Founder of Zetaris. We are changing the way data analysis is done in large enterprises. The traditional model is to collect data from different source systems across

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped from New Zealand, Scaled in the US

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  I have always said that you need to bootstrap your way to validation and traction. ProjectManager.com Founder Jason Westland did just that, and built a robust company from New Zealand. Read on, it’s a fabulous story from 2016. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning

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Catching Up On Readings: The Crypties 2022

This feature from Decrypt covers the winners at the inaugural Crypties Awards Gala held in Miami recently to recognize the achievements in the blockchain ecosystem. For this week’s events, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Giuseppe Donvito, Partner at P101 Ventures (Part 4)

Giuseppe Donvito: I can mention several exits just in our portfolio. In some, they were successful exits. What I found very interesting is, as a VC, you always need to be clever to find the right time. This is key. Otherwise, it is easy to say you’ll keep the company for 10 years. In our

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