Cloud Stocks: Nutanix Plans to Take on VMWare

According to a report by Market Research Future published last year, the Hybrid Cloud market is estimated to grow at 23% CAGR to reach $173.33 billion by 2025. Enterprise cloud computing player Nutanix (Nasdaq: NTNX) is helping organizations migrate to these multi-cloud environments by improving its product and partner capabilities.

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From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When did this insight on senior care come to focus?

David Moss: We knew we wanted to get into senior care around 2016. It takes time to orient that product in that direction. We had to keep the company alive. We wanted to position this technology more in this direction.

It was in 2018 that we received a $4.5 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to create assistive solutions for people with Dementia and Alzheimer’s. That was key. That enabled us to focus on commercializing this infrastructure and go out there with something that is valuable for this population.

Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped Using Services, then Raised $10M and Scaled to $16M

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This is a textbook case study of founders with deep domain knowledge in starting with services and then productizing, eventually raising institutional capital. EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati tell us all about their journey.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born? Where does your journey begin? 

Sarva Srinivasan: I was born in India and grew up there. I did my Computer Science there, then majored in Finance. I then started working with Wipro.

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Israeli Founders Building a FinTech Venture: Omri Dor, Co-Founder and COO of Obligo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: When you went out for seed funding, what did you have? Did you have an MVP?

Omri Dor: We started working on it. In the beginning, it was me and Roey. For his other businesses, he had this building with offices. We were sitting there figuring out some stuff. We started thinking about what the product would look like. At that time, the market we had in mind was the Israeli market, which is a peer-to-peer, single renter, single landlord.

Cloud Stocks: Okta’s Widening Losses Worry Investors, But Growth Metrics Remain Strong

According to a recent report, the global identity and access management market is estimated to grow ar 14.5% CAGR from $13.41 billion in 2021 to reach $34.52 billion by 2028. Corporate identity management software company Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA) recently reported its fourth-quarter results that surpassed market expectations. But the outlook of bigger than expected losses did not please the market.

From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: All these things that you talked about fit under positioning. Product positioning makes or breaks the business. You have to hit the right pain points, the right go-to-market strategy,and the right segmentation.

The next question I want to ask you is, you were tinkering with certain ideas in 2009, but the real idea around which you started building People Power took several years. Something like four years?

Israeli Founders Building a FinTech Venture: Omri Dor, Co-Founder and COO of Obligo (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the genesis? What was the idea?

Omri Dor: I should mention that ever since I was 20, I would always keep a record of all my ideas. I would try to classify them. I would do due diligence on my own ideas. I did this a lot. Every once in a while when I hit something that is big, I would call whichever friend of mine was knowledgeable and would be a potential co-founder.

Best of Bootstrapping: Entrepreneur Couple Bootstraps an E-commerce Business Using a Paycheck and Crowdfunding

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Nomad Lane Co-Founders Kish Vasnani and Vanessa Jeswani bootstrapped to multi-million dollars in revenue selling a private label product before quitting their jobs. In this story, you also get to see the nuances of running successful (and not so successful) crowdfunding campaigns. Very interesting journey and insights.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in background?

Kish Vasnani: I was born in Jaipur, India and moved to the US when I was about one year old. I grew up around the Atlanta area and finished school there. I moved to New York to help a friend of a friend start a software company, which was also bootstrapped. We were able to sell that to Thomson Reuters. I had the itch again to go out on my own. Very candidly, I was also fired from a couple of other jobs over the course of two years.

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