Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Sridhar Iyengar, CEO of Elemental Machines (Part 1)

We observed the movement of system administrators becoming DevOps engineers.

Sridhar is leading an effort of moving lab administrators becoming LabOps engineers with the help of cutting edge technology like IoT.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Jim Xiao, CEO of Mason (Part 1)

Jim is building an AWS or Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service company for rapid deployment of IOT products and use cases.

Startups can also leverage the platform to quickly build IoT products. Fascinating discussion. 

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

Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 1)

Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Read on for yet another fantastic textbook case study.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Pandio Founders Gideon Rubin, CEO and Josh Odmark, CTO (Part 1)

We explore AI Connectivity in this discussion.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having the two of you introduce yourselves as well as Pandio.

Gideon Rubin: I’m the CEO and Co-Founder along with Josh Odmark. I’m a serial entrepreneur. I focus primarily on using big data and data science to gain an advantage. Pandio came from the fact that Josh and I both came from different startups. We were talking about what to do next. We realized that IoT and a lot of the data sources were getting really good.

Roundtable Recap: July 29 – How Itai Sadan Bootstrapped Duda First with a Paycheck and then Raised $100 Million

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Itai Sadan, Co-founder and CEO of Duda. I first met Itai back in 2013 and started getting to know his story. It’s a compelling case study of bootstrapping with a paycheck and then raising significant funding to scale over more than a decade.

Escrow Protocol

As for our entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Dennis Schulte from Toronto, Canada, pitching Escrow Protocol, a 2-sided marketplace for milestone-based funding.

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Building a Unicorn and Establishing the Customer Success Category: Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight (Part 1)

I spoke with Nick back when Gainsight was very young. Much has happened since. This conversation catches us up on the interim years since 2013.

Gainsight recently raised money from Vista Equity at a $1.1 billion valuation.

Roundtable Recap: July 22 – Conversation with Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator. We had a terrific discussion on what we each are seeing in the ecosystem.

Re:Mind

As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Bindu Thirupathi from Bengaluru, India, pitch Re:Mind, a wellness wearable.

CultureTalk

Then, 1Mby1M Premium members Theresa Agresta and Cynthia Forstmann pitched CultureTalk, a corporate culture solution.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 1)

Ben is a serial entrepreneur with a long experience in bootstrapping and fundraising. Read on to see how he has navigated his journey.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?