Roundtable Recap: July 25 – Equity Financing From Customers

Today’s roundtable started with an interesting discussion on equity financing from customers. B2Be First, Balaji Abbabatulla from London, England, a 1M/1M premium member, pitched B2Be. The company is working with accounting firms in London to validate its concept of a mobile invoicing app. Interestingly, some of these accounting firms have expressed interest in investing in

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What enterprise resource planning systems do you integrate with most often? Tom Dibble: SAP and Oracle are the two biggest as far as market share is concerned. We have customers that are using Aria in conjunction with both of those on a regular basis. We also have customers who use NetSuite and also

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183rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 183rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

183rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 183rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, July 25, 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: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What are some new categories of services you are seeing in the telecom business? Tom Dibble: The two we are seeing predominantly are cloud services and content services. The lines are getting much blurrier now between classic telcos like AT&T or Horizon versus what AWS [Amazon Web Services] does. We are going to

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: One thing we believe is that letting people use something for an unlimited period without charging them doesn’t really help monetization. Free trials, however, are much better ways of converting free customers to paying customers. Do you have a perspective on that? Tom Dibble: It is very industry specific. If you look at

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Interview with Tom Dibble, CEO of Aria Systems (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk about how you are operating in that premium scenario with a good visual example? When does Aria kick in? Does anybody who tries to use OpenShift, for example, get into the Aria systems right away, or do they only get into it when premium services kick in? Tom Dibble: I

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Thursday, July 25 – 183rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 183rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 25, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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