Entrepreneurs are invited to the 599th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, February 9, 2023, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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 can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.
You can learn more here and REGISTER TO PITCH OR ATTEND HERE. Register and you will receive the recording by email, even if you are unable to attend. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!
Deepak tells a textbook story of a developer turned entrepreneur. He and his cofounder started by bootstrapping with a paycheck, validated the hypothesis, and then quit their jobs. We love stories like this, as you know.
Sramana Mitra: Tell me where you’re from, born, raised. What kind of background?
>>>When life throws you a curveball, like an unexpected job loss, it can be disheartening. Yet this could also present the opportunity to start your own business.
Rather than searching for another employer, why not pursue something that you have always been passionate about?
Michelle Munson is the CEO of Aspera, a company she began after being laid off. Aspera was her realization that she could not only control her own career path but also create jobs for other people in a culture she had established. Read Michelle’s story here and see if you get inspired.
Need more motivation?
Alphabet (Google) (Nasdaq: GOOG) recently reported its fourth-quarter results that failed to impress the market. Like other tech players, Google too is bracing for economic uncertainty while preparing to take on the growing power of ChatGPT.
>>>Sramana Mitra: One thing you didn’t mention is, the channels through which customers interact with an enterprise have expanded. Each of those has become a source of data. Any kind of messenger chat has become a source of data. People are touching the enterprise through many channels. Each of them is generating data. It gives AI a lot more ammunition.
Krishna Raj Raja: The omnichannel made AI more complex as opposed to simplifying it.
>>>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 – Orient Express I
Orient Express I | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 9 x 12, On Paper
This report from CB Insights provides insights into the state of the Digital Health industry in 2022. US-based companies accounted for 68% of total digital health funding in 2022. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
>>>Sramana Mitra: Is your primary customer base in the tech sector?
Krishna Raj Raja: Right now, we are focused on the tech sector. This is intentional. We have closed a lot of technology companies. Salesforce is one of them. Others are Databricks, Snowflake, 8×8. The who’s who of Silicon Valley are using us. The reason why we chose to focus on them is that technology companies have highly complex support.
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