230th Roundtable Recording On September 18, 2014: With Jason Stoffer, Maveron

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Roundtable Recap: September 18 – From eCommerce to Web 3.0 with Jason Stoffer, Partner, Maveron

Today’s roundtable kicked off with a great discussion with Jason Stoffer of Maveron. Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm that has had a successful track record of investing in e-commerce ventures ranging from eBay, Shutterfly, Groupon to the more recent Zulily. They also invest in education ventures. In today’s discussion with Jason, some of

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: This is a very good discussion. Give me some more interesting use cases. What other segments or interesting creative ideas are you seeing in your developer ecosystem? Jeff Lawson: We’ve got pretty much every sharing account including companies like Airbnb and TaskRabbit. In the sharing economy, you use technology to connect supply and demand

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230th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 230th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 18, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

230th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 230th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 18, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio (Part 3)

Jeff Lawson: What Uber has done is, take the communication part of calling a taxi and seamlessly integrate it into the whole experience. Communication used to be a standalone activity. Now communication just becomes part of the workflow that you have when you use Uber. We see this in many software companies. In the transportation space

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Given that your primary positioning is that you are replacing hardware-based call center solution with a software and cloud-based call center solution, whom are you replacing in terms of vendors? Jeff Lawson: It’s the typical hardware-centric companies like Cisco or Via. These are people who are trying to sell you a monolithic, typically

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Jeff Lawson, CEO of Twilio (Part 1)

Did you know that the core technology at the heart of apps like Uber and Lyft is a relatively lesser known cloud-based communication platform called Twilio? Read on! Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as Twilio to begin with. Jeff Lawson: I’m the CEO and Co-founder of Twilio. Twilio is communication-as-a-service.

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