Cloud Stocks: Analysis of UiPath’s Re:Infer Acquisition

The global intelligent process automation market is estimated to grow 16.5% CAGR from $9.52 billion in 2021 to reach $37.63 billion by 2030. New York-based UiPath (NYSE: PATH) recently announced its second quarter results that continued to outpace market expectations. But the weaker than expected outlook has sent its stock tumbling.

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Female Entrepreneur Scaling a PropTech Venture with Over $40M in Funding: PunchListUSA CEO Min Alexander (Part 2)

Min Alexander: Along the way, you realize that real estate is one of the most un-innovative spaces. When you think about early 1998 dot com burst, it did open our society and economy to the power of technology. Why is it that all of these spaces were influenced by technology like logistics and computer science, and web marketplaces, but not real estate? That started a lot of my thoughts around so many problems. It’s all so fragmented also.

Then in 2012, I was recruited by Alta Sources Portfolio Solutions as the Head of Real Estate Services. This gave me my first opportunity to create processes and technology at scale. At that time, we were serving institutional owners of single-family residential real estate. In my free time, I started working on this business model. This was in 2014.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Gryphon CEO John Wu (Part 1)

Gryphon is a very interesting company in the B-to-C Cyber Security space. This interview discusses their go-to-market strategy and equity crowdfunding strategy in significant detail.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Gryphon.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping with Services to $12M

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

You know that we believe in the Bootstrapping Using Services methodology quite firmly. Here is Square Root Founder Chris Taylor’s story from 2016 – a great example of how and why bootstrapping using services works.

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

Chris Taylor: I grew up in rural West Virginia. You won’t meet a lot of entrepreneurs out of West Virginia. When I was four, my father passed away, so my brother and I were raised by our mother. She did a fantastic job. My brother is also another entrepreneur. In college, I went to Carnegie-Mellon and studied Computer Science, Psychology, and Mathematics.

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Cloud Stocks: Couchbase Focuses on Development of its Community

The global NoSQL market is expected to grow at 30% CAGR from billion in 2021 to $27.4 billion by 2027. The growth in the industry is being driven by the increasing amount of semi-structured and unstructured data generated by varied business needs and user preferences. The surging penetration of smartphones and the internet is adding to the demand for NoSQL databases in social networks, retail, and e-commerce sectors. Couchbase (Nasdaq: BASE), a leading vendor in the market, recently announced its second-quarter earnings.

Female Entrepreneur Scaling a PropTech Venture with Over $40M in Funding: PunchListUSA CEO Min Alexander (Part 1)

Min tells a wonderful story of building a scaling a PropTech company with significant funding at a $100M+ valuation.

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

Catching Up On Readings: FinTech 250 2022

This annual report from CB Insights lists 250 of the most promising private FinTech companies in the world that are shaping the future of B2B and B2C financial services, from payments and banking to investing and insurance. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Colors: Out of Africa IV

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 – Out of Africa IV

Out of Africa  IV | Sramana Mitra, 2021 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 9  x 12, On Paper