Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Martin Neale, CEO of ICS (Part 1)

Martin has built his AI startup within the Microsoft ecosystem. He shares interesting perspectives on how to leverage Microsoft.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well ICS.

Martin Neale: I’m the CEO of ICS AI. 

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Thursday, October 21 – 550th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 550th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 21, 2021, 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!

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Steven Mitzenmacher, Rackspace Technology (Part 1)

Steven Mitzenmacher, SVP of Corporate Development at Rackspace Technology, discusses the Buy-side thought process on Exit Strategy.

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Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Qualtrics’s $1.125B Clarabridge Acquisition

The global customer experience management market is expected to grow at 15.5% CAGR to $27.12 billion by 2028. CX leader Qualtrics (NYSE: XM) recently acquired Clarabridge, a leader in conversational analytics, for $1.125 billion.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ohad Maislish, CEO of env0 (Part 2)

Ohad Maislish: Another use case is governance. Not every code should be executed. Some code can be very dangerous and expensive. That’s where you see Policy-as-a-Code. We see a lot of open policy agents (OPA) used to protect programmatic deployments before they happen. You can write policies that will prevent your organization from the wrong deployment. That’s like the unit test model for Infrastructure-as-a-Code.

Will Investors Fund Your Startup?

Investors generally do not fund businesses unless they have some level of validation, customers, and traction. You most likely will need to bootstrap your way to a point where investors would be interested. Please take a look at our free course on Bootstrapping to get a taste of how we teach at One Million by One Million (1Mby1M). You may also check out some of our Udemy courses to get a feel.

Interested in getting some help with validating your startup? Apply to win a one-year scholarship to the 1Mby1M Premium program, sponsored by DataStax, valued at $1000.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Lessons Learned by FairWarning Founder Kurt Long

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

FairWarning Founder Kurt Long has tried different permutations and combinations of bootstrapping, several of them successfully. Listen to his perspective on each of those from when we spoke in 2015. FairWarning was acquired by Imprivata in 2018

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Kurt Long: I was raised in Clearwater, Florida. I grew up in Florida at a very special time where we enjoyed being outside and in the waters. As I grew up, I watched the Apollo missions and other NASA-based missions take off from the Kennedy Space Center, which is on the other coast but you could still see the launches. From a very early age, those made an impression on me that I wanted to participate in innovation and exploration. That’s something that has stayed with me through my whole career. As I went through high school and college, I held on to the dream and even wrote letters to Kennedy Space Center to ask about the Space Center and how it worked.

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1Mby1M Startup EnCloudEn Acquired by Quantum Corporation

Congratulations to EnCloudEn Co-founder Abinash Saikia and the entire EnCloudEn team! Quantum Corporation (NASDAQ: QMCO) acquired EnCloudEn, an early stage hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software company. The co-founders mostly bootstrapped the company with very small capital, so this is effectively a bootstrapping to exit deal.

“I joined the 1Mby1M Premium program in 2020 and had a very good experience interacting with Sramana,” shares EnCloudEn Co-founder Abinash Saikia. “Her inputs during the private roundtable sessions added a lot of value; she addressed the exact objectives I had. She also made a number of valuable introductions. Overall, the program had a very positive influence on our journey.”

The EnCloudEn acquisition will enable Quantum to expand the addressable market for the company’s video surveillance portfolio, offering customers a solution using their server hardware of choice with a flexible subscription-based software model. EnCloudEn’s approach to simplicity and automation integrates tightly with Quantum’s strategy to offer customers intuitive end-to-end solutions for the video data lifecycle.