Colors: Sunrise, Yesterday II

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 – Sunrise, Yesterday II

Sunrise, Yesterday II | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 8  x 8, On Paper

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As usual, we love Bootstrapping Using Services case studies. Avelead CEO Jawad Shaikh shares his journey. Streamline Health acquired Avelead in 2021.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

Jawad Shaikh: I was born in Pakistan. I came to the United States when I was four years old. I lived here in the States my entire life. My story falls under the Entrepreneur Journeys because my family is a business family. My father had his own business. I used to work with him. My story starts there.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: SupportLogic CEO Krishna Raj Raja (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How do you go to market? Do you sell directly to enterprises or other companies that you mentioned?

Krishna Raj Raja: Great question. Salesforce is a customer of ours. Salesforce Support uses Support Logic. We have not done joint go-to-market. We sell directly, but we’re forming partnerships with ISP vendors and delivery and support vendors. If you have an offshore agency that delivers support, they care about the quality of support they deliver. We cater to them as well.

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Sramana Mitra: Mattias, tell us about you. Where did your journey begin and in what kind of background?

Mattias Larson: I was born in the northern part of Sweden – actually, not that far away from the Arctic Circle – in a small town with a population of maybe 40,000. I grew up there and I went to college in a nearby town. I graduated with a master’s degree in Computer Science and International Marketing.

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February 9 – 599th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

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