April 28 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording. You can choose the business you like best of those presented through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page.

Plug-and-Play Cloud Storage At Home: Cloud Engines CEO Daniel Putterman (Part 7)

Sramana: What was your run rate after you began channel deals? Daniel Putterman: If you look at the run rate from October through the end of the year, it becomes clear that the channels put us on the map and everyone got excited about the product. Every time a Pogoplug customer buys a device, they

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Plug-and-Play Cloud Storage At Home: Cloud Engines CEO Daniel Putterman (Part 6)

Sramana: It sounds as though you had a good product completed before you launched. Daniel Putterman: We did, and it took a lot of hard work to do it. It was a leap of faith to launch it in the way we did. The clincher was that one of my lead investors is Foundry Group.

April 21 Roundtable Poll Winner

Douglas Villalobos’ GeoInvenio was chosen the best business of those presented at the last roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here, read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here, and register for upcoming roundtables here.

Plug-and-Play Cloud Storage At Home: Cloud Engines CEO Daniel Putterman (Part 5)

Sramana: Let’s go back to the “press went crazy” comment. The press does not go crazy, you make the press go crazy. Daniel Putterman: I would love to take credit, but all we said when we were at our booth was that nobody was too important or small for us to talk to. This was

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1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs on Thursday, April 28

Entrepreneurs interested in discussing their startup ventures are invited to pitch their businesses or attend this FREE online strategy roundtable on Thursday, April 28, 2011, starting at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. IST. You can find more details here and register here.

Plug-and-Play Cloud Storage At Home: Cloud Engines CEO Daniel Putterman (Part 4)

Sramana: In which year did you leave Macrovision? Daniel Putterman: The sale was the first of January 2007. I was on my way by the middle of that year. The bulk of the core team also came along around that time. We had a small core team.

Plug-and-Play Cloud Storage At Home: Cloud Engines CEO Daniel Putterman (Part 3)

Sramana: Did you come to those conclusions by the time you started your third company? Daniel Putterman: I came to those conclusions during the middle of my third company. I started a company called Mediabolic. We created the ability for consumer to experience multimedia on TVs and other devices; they were used to consuming media

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