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Cloud
Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: CipherCloud CEO Pravin Kothari (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What are the trends in that? I would think that the public cloud vendors – people who provide SaaS as their core business – isn’t it their responsibility to make sure that they’re providing their data and applications in a secure way? Pravin Kothari: That’s a great question. Every cloud provider like Microsoft,
Bootstrapping All The Way: Infinitely Virtual CEO Adam Stern (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Did you continue to bootstrap the company, or did you, at this point, introduce financing? Adam Stern: Early on, we financed purchases. Then we decided that from a cash flow perspective, it made a lot of sense to lease equipment. Our storage equipment, switches, and routers were leased. We only stopped leasing equipment
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later from Utah: HireVue CEO Mark Newman (Part 1)
True to our 1M/1M mantra, Mark bootstrapped HireVue to $1M in revenue before raising the first funding. Today, the company has raised a total of $92 million, and is going $30 million in revenue. Excellent case study to study! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your story. Tell us where you’re from,
Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Help me rationalize what’s happening right now in the market regarding late-stage valuation bubbles. We have two kinds of bubbles in the startup venture world. One is in the seed capital. In 2013, 70,000 companies were angel-financed. That’s too much actually. It’s great that they got angel-funded, but then if you look at
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Marty Beard, CEO of LiveOps (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: We just went through a somewhat painful migration and then, in the middle, integration of our email marketing system, which was on Aweber. Our CRM system is on Zoho, and Zoho has now released an email marketing product. We were not happy with Aweber, so we are moving from Aweber to Zoho. All
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Marty Beard, CEO of LiveOps (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like one of the big changes that has happened is the requirement to route to a different set of agents. Marty Beard: Right. But there’s the higher level point that the world of the agent is becoming more sophisticated. The demands on the agent are increasing. SM: When the agent responds
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Marty Beard, CEO of LiveOps (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about what specifically you’re doing in mobile and social. Marty Beard: We have integrated all the channels. The channels are voice, email, chat, SMS, Twitter, and Facebook. We’ve integrated all those channels onto one screen. So, you don’t have to open up several different applications to do social analysis. You have
Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Marty Beard, CEO of LiveOps (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: OK. I guess the discussion is a bit different from what I had expected. Marty Beard: Yes. Again, LiveOps, we always sell directly to an enterprise. We offer our cloud applications to help them run their customer service organizations, their contact centers. We are a cloud contact center vendor. For those enterprises that
