Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Comet ML CEO Gideon Mendels (Part 1)

We’ve covered ML Ops before in interviews such as Arize.

Gideon provides a comprehensive overview of how the space is evolving and the opportunities on the horizon.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you as well as to Comet.

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Catching Up On Readings: Top Cybersecurity Predictions 

This report from Garner explores the future of cyber security with its top eight cyber security predictions for 2023-2024 at the recently held Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

April 13 – 604th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 604th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 13, 2023, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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!

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603rd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: March 30 – Niche GTM Works Better than Broad

During this week’s roundtable, we discussed several businesses for which the principle of niche Go-to-Market works better than broad holds true.

SwiftAds

First up, we had Brian Leung from Toronto, Canada, pitch SwiftAds as a marketplace. I thought it first needs to establish the value proposition of why advertisers should work with them.

Valence Vibrations

Next, we had Chloe Duckworth from Los Angeles, California, pitching Valence Vibrations, an app for establishing empathy and gauging the mood of conversations. We discussed the appropriate positioning for the company.

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A Conversation on Regional Language Content: Kocowa CEO KunHee Park (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How many consumers do you have currently?

KunHee Park: Five million. If I counted paid subscription, we have over one million.

Sramana Mitra: What’s the monthly subscription fee?

KunHee Park: $6.99.

Sramana Mitra: Do you have a sense of who is paying to subscribe to this? Is it mostly Korean speaking people?

Building a Million-Dollar E-commerce Business in Fashion

I started one of the Internet’s first fashion e-commerce companies in 1999. It was very expensive to do so at the time.

Today, an online fashion business can be launched in an extraordinarily capital-efficient manner. 

There are so many effective e-commerce platforms from Amazon, eBay and Etsy to Shopify and BigCommerce that will allow you to either start selling through their marketplaces or create your storefront for just a few dollars. 

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A Mini-MBA in Entrepreneurship for Working Professionals

Most adult professionals have jobs, families, and other responsibilities. People working in the tech industry have big salaries to forego if they want to start a company.

For ambitious folks who want to start a technology startup while working full-time, having a job means your income doesn’t depend on the immediate success of your startup business. We call this method Bootstrapping with a Paycheck and take entrepreneurs through the whole bootstrapping using a paycheck process with excellent case studies.

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