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.

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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

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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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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Kristen Valdes, CEO of b.well Connected Health (Part 5)

Kristen Valdes: During that time, I had given birth to my second child Bailey. She was born with a very significant auto-immune condition. She had a near fatal incident because two EMR systems couldn’t communicate with one another. At that point, I realized that it didn’t matter how much expertise I had gained in healthcare. I knew how to navigate the system. I couldn’t do it on behalf of my own family.

That’s when I became the Excel-plotting mom trying to figure out if she could have been diagnosed faster, could we have avoided this near-death complication if we had all the information at our fingertips. I left and I launched b.well. We need to take the friction and fragmentation out of healthcare and deliver seamless and simple user experiences.

Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Dynatrace’s SpectX Acquisition

The global application performance monitoring (APM) market is expected to grow at 11% CAGR to reach $15.4 billion by 2028. Dynatrace (NYSE: DT), a leading player in the market, is looking to expand its presence in the market through acquisitions.

From Student Entrepreneur to a $15 Million Revenue Ultralight Business: Stephanie Madesh, CEO of Kalon Clothing (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Was the age group you were trying to go after your own age group?

Stephanie Madesh: Yes. I was going after the 20- to 30-year-old market back then. As it evolved, my customers base were more in the 20- to 60-year old category.

Sramana Mitra: How did you acquire the customers?