Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Amit Jain, Chief Product Officer, ServiceMax (Part 2)

Amit Jain: It made a lot of sense from two angles. One was, it was more cost-efficient and faster because we didn’t have to spin up a bunch of teams to build infrastructure. We focus our teams more on the differentiating capabilities of a field service solution. Also, it helps us that we are on the same technology platform as Salesforce. That’s where the ecosystem is valid.

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October 13 – 593rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 593rd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 13, 2022, 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!

592nd Roundtable Recording with Heather Hiles, Imminent Equity

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Roundtable Recap: October 6 – Spotlight on Black Entrepreneurs

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Heather Hiles, Founder and Managing Partner at Imminent Equity, and a pioneering entrepreneur in the Black community. Heather also has deep experience in financing Black entrepreneurs, as well as on the education side to close knowledge gaps at scale.

Block Transfer

As for our entrepreneur pitches, first we had John Wooten from Atlanta, Georgia, pitch Block Transfer, a peer-to-peer stock trading platform.

StyleAStar

Then Victoria Christopher from Nigeria pitched StyleAStar, a B-to-C Customized Fashion business.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Building a High-Growth Startup From Brazil: Revelo CEO Lachlan de Crespigny (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How long does a developer stay in one company before they go out and look again?

Lachlan de Crespigny: Developers that find jobs with American companies stay for much longer. As per the current model, the average time is over three years. A normal developer stays 12 to 18 months. I don’t think it’s particularly healthy. Latin American remote workers tend to stay longer because US companies, in general, have very interesting work. They pay good salaries and it’s cool for people to work for a New York or Silicon Valley-backed VC company.

Best of Bootstrapping: Wonderful Bootstrapping with a Paycheck Story

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

This is a wonderful bootstrapping with a paycheck story of a really smart, scrappy entrepreneur, Suuchi Ramesh, Founder CEO of Suuchi.

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?

Suuchi Ramesh: I was born in India. I spent the first 15 years in Madras, which is Chennai now. My family is in Bangalore, so I went to school in Bangalore. I’m a software engineer. Bangalore has a lot of great technology companies. I came to the United States on a tech job.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Amit Jain, Chief Product Officer, ServiceMax (Part 1)

ServiceMax is one of the great success cases of the Bootstrapping by Piggybacking strategy that we espouse in 1Mby1M. It is also an excellent Vertical Cloud case study. Please study this case study to understand the nuances of how the company leveraged the Force.com platform in compelling ways.

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

Building a High-Growth Startup From Brazil: Revelo CEO Lachlan de Crespigny (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How much money had you raised in 2019 of October?

Lachlan de Crespigny: We had raised $15 million in 2019.

Sramana Mitra: You had some war chest to be able to figure things out.

Lachlan de Crespigny: We did. It was very lucky timing. It was not an easy fundraise. We were still a Brazilian-focused business at that point. There weren’t many funds that were interested in investing in Brazil in an industry they didn’t know.