Will Apple Buy Disney?

Last week, Apple (Nasdaq: AAPL) announced its third quarter results that were ahead of expectations yet failed to truly impress the market. The company posted its third consecutive quarter of declining sales and expected a similar slowdown to continue in the current quarter.

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Catching Up On Readings: Future of DSML

This feature from Gartner identifies the top trends impacting the future of data science and machine learning (DSML) as the industry evolves to meet the increasing significance of data in artificial intelligence (AI). For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Colors: Les Couleurs Italienne 1

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 I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Les Couleurs Italienne 1

Les Couleurs Italienne 1 | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper

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Bootstrapping an AI-Powered Security Startup to $10M+ in Revenue: Osprey Security CEO Rohit Anabheri (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: These two customers that you were able to place the MVPs into pilots with, how long did it take you to turn them into paying customers?

Rohit Anabheri: About three to six months. They wanted to ensure the stability of the platform.

Sramana Mitra: What is the average deal size?

Rohit Anabheri: Six figures.

Colors: La Lune 2

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 I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – La Lune 2

La Lune 2 | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper

Bootstrapping an AI-Powered Security Startup to $10M+ in Revenue: Osprey Security CEO Rohit Anabheri (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you, and what was the trajectory? How many customers did you work with in the beginning? As you started to productize, what was the timeline?

Rohit Anabheri: The first year is always a struggle. It was completely bootstrapped by me and my co-founder.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Product Using Services

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Here’s yet another great case study of a successful bootstrapping whereby the entrepreneurs developed a solid product business eventually. This conversation with 2600Hz Co-CEO / Co-founder Patrick Sullivan took place in 2017.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Patrick Sullivan: I was born in California. I eventually went to school at Santa Barbara and got a degree in Computer Science. I graduated in 1999. I moved back to Tahoe to be a ski bum for a year to get that out of my system. Then I moved to San Francisco right before the dot-com crash happened. It was a pretty awful thing from a career standpoint.

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Cloud Stocks: Amazon Focuses on AI Tools for Developers

Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) recently reported its second quarter results that outpaced market expectations. During the quarter, Amazon continued to add several enhancements to its platform that leverage generative AI capabilities.