Cloud Stocks: Tuya Prepares to Address the Chip Shortage

The global IoT market is expected to grow to $1.386 trillion by 2026 from $761.4 billion in 2020, at a CAGR of 10.5%. China’s Tuya (NYSE: TUYA), which has pioneered a purpose-built IoT cloud platform, went public earlier this year and continues to expand its presence in the market through partnerships. The recent semiconductor shortage is an area of concern, but Tuya appears to be prepared to handle it.

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Homeroots CEO Gil Bar-Lev (Part 1)

Gil discusses wholesale e-commerce and its complexities. This is an important interview to read for e-commerce retailers who’re looking to buy efficiently, as well as run their businesses in a zero-logistics mode.

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

From Student Entrepreneur to a $15 Million Revenue Ultralight Business: Stephanie Madesh, CEO of Kalon Clothing (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You were finding all these levers at the right moment. Timing is really hard to get, but when you get it right, it works really well. What kind of revenue level were you at in 2015?

Stephanie Madesh: We would have been at $3.5 million.

Sramana Mitra: How many people now?

Stephanie Madesh: 12 employees.

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Catching Up On Readings: IPO Momentum

This feature from Nasdaq covers the strong IPO momentum in the first three quarters of the year 2021 so far wherein 560 companies have listed raising $136 billion. Q3 accounted for 147 listings raising over $29 billion. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

From Student Entrepreneur to a $15 Million Revenue Ultralight Business: Stephanie Madesh, CEO of Kalon Clothing (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Were you selling this under private label, or was it still retail?

Stephanie Madesh: We were selling it as the Kalon brand. It was our own design. We were still a boutique. But if you can imagine Forever21 when they started, they had their own label and all the labels that they carried.

Sramana Mitra: It’s very common in the fashion business. They start with selling other people’s brands and then pick up categories in which they offer their own brands. Your strategy is exactly in line with what retail companies do.

Colors: Watercolor Hills, Vermont Fall

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 – Watercolor Hills, Vermont Fall

Watercolor Hills, Vermont Fall | Sramana Mitra, 2020 | Watercolor | 9  x 12, On Paper

From Student Entrepreneur to a $15 Million Revenue Ultralight Business: Stephanie Madesh, CEO of Kalon Clothing (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happened in 2010?

Stephanie Madesh: We doubled that year. We were at the $300,000 level. That was two-fold. We had started a print-on-demand. That had its own website. That drove the other $150,000 in sales.

Sramana Mitra: What were you printing on demand? T-shirts?

549th Roundtable Recording with Jukka Alanen, PagerDuty

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