10 Udemy Courses on How to Build a Product Startup Using Services

This Udemy bundle is for IT and IT-enabled businesses wanting to understand how to get early clients by providing services, as well as existing IT-service companies looking to transition into product businesses.

Why is this set of skills so important?

Featured Videos

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: C3.ai is exactly like yours. They have a core platform. They’ve gone after the energy market first. They have relationships with the system integrators. Now they’re broadening. It’s a very similar strategy. There’s another company that I’m tracking that has a similar strategy. They come from an open source route which is H20 AI. 

Prashant Kumar: The challenge is that a lot of people are developing point solutions. We focus on what we call a data journey. Your data journey could be data engineering, machine learning, or visualization. C3.ai has an amazing platform. They’ve gone public as well. They’re focused on the machine learning side of things. H20 AI is sitting in a different segment. We don’t play in that space. We integrate with H20 AI. We’re super clear that we’re a data journey platform.

Analysis of Affirm’s Returnly Acquisition

The global Buy Now, Pay Later market is expected to grow at 22% CAGR to $20.4 billion by 2028 driven by the improvements in platforms, such as convenient and interest-free payments especially when shopping online. Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) is a leading player in the market that went public early this year.

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Ohad Maislish, CEO of env0 (Part 1)

Ohad talks about trends and open problems within the DevOps space. This is a deeply technical conversation.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to env0.

Catching Up On Readings: VC Funding Q3 2021

This report from Crunchbase News analyzes the trends in global venture funding, which hit a peak of $160 billion in the third quarter of 2021. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Colors: Red Barn, Vermont, I

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 – Red Barn, Vermont, I

Red Barn, Vermont, I | Sramana Mitra, 2020 | Watercolor | 9  x 12, On Paper

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Prashant Kumar, CTO of Cardinality (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: We are doing an accelerator with Datastax. They manage the whole Cassandra stack. Their value proposition is the same – real-time, scalable, high availability, and high velocity processing of information from IoT. Does that make you competitors of Cassandra?

Prashant Kumar: Suppose AT&T wants to use Cassandra, we can push data into Cassandra. That’s the first component in our platform. You can stream the data out to multiple endpoints. We are compatible with all the cloud providers being cloud native.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 5)

Stuart Udell: I have the pleasure to be one of only two members of the EdTech community who are part of the American Association of School Administrators’ new commission for student-centered and equity-focused education. The goal of that organization is to create a blueprint for the future of American education.

While there was a lot of good in the old model, it’s not good enough anymore. There’s a ton of investment coming in. There’s a lot of private equity investment for the middle-sized and larger companies in the space. It’s a really exciting time for us to take learning to a new level. That’s true in the school level and in higher education.