Cloud Stocks: Microsoft Expands its Healthcare Cloud Offerings

Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) continues to remain unscathed with the current macro-economic conditions. For the recently reported third quarter, the company outpaced market expectations on the power of its cloud platform.

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Leveraging Channels and Slovenia to build Successful Businesses: Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You identified some Citrix monitoring IP. Where was this IP located?

Simon Taylor: It was in Slovenia. It became the technology capital of central Europe at that time. They have become incredibly adept at artificial intelligence. With what we’re seeing in Ukraine today and the attacks by Russia, it’s extremely concerning what’s going on in that region. We were fortunate. They were able to recreate upwards of a thousand jobs across the region.

Cloud Stocks: Google’s Acquisition of Mandiant Fuels its Cloud Strategy

Google’s (Nasdaq: GOOG) recently reported first-quarter results failed to impress the market’s expectations. The company is stepping up focus on its cloud offerings as it tries to expand its share in the market. But its disappointing results sent the stock tumbling 18% in the after-hours trading session.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Under30Experiences to $5M

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

Under30Experiences Co-founder Matt Wilson has built a fantastic business using content marketing to sell travel experiences to a millennial demographic. Very cool! Here is our conversation from 2019.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where did you grow up and in what kind of background?

Matt Wilson: I grew up in upstate New York. I grew up in a little tiny town called Stormville, New York. It’s about 60 minutes outside of New York City. It’s not really that close to the city, but it wasn’t extremely rural. I just started being an enterprising young man whether it was by mowing lawns or picking golf balls out of the local ponds. Selling the golf balls on eBay was my first online business. That really ignited the passion for entrepreneurship. Baseball cards would probably be the other thing that I was really passionate about when I was younger.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Julie Lein, Managing Partner at Urban Innovation Fund (Part 1)

Julie Lein, Managing Partner at Urban Innovation Fund, discusses pre-seed and seed funding in companies focused on the betterment of cities.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s get you and Urban Innovation Fund introduced to our audience.

Julie Lein: I’m the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund. We are a venture capital firm that invests in startups shaping the future of cities. We invest across a variety of verticals. These are what you might consider more traditional smart city sectors like transportation, energy, PropTech.

Leveraging Channels and Slovenia to build Successful Businesses: Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU (Part 1)

Simon offers excellent insights into creating an unfair advantage with unique engineering team leverage in off-center locations. He also discusses creative channel strategy techniques.

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: LatAm Startup Ecosystem 2022

This feature from Crunchbase News analyzes what the Latin American startup ecosystem will look like by the end of 2022. There were 18 unicorns in LatAm in 2021, and the stabilized confidence in the region will drive new opportunities, and more diverse players are expected to enter the space. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

573rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Steve Eskenazi, Angel Investor

Steve Eskenazi is an Angel Investor, and we had a number of interesting trend conversations.

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