Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you quantify what was happening in these accounts, you were landing the accounts with your ERP channel and partnership management expertise and then growing those accounts. So, when you landed those accounts, what were the deal sizes and what kind of deal sizes were you able to expand these accounts to?

Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In this niche, did you have customer relationships? Anji Maram: Yes. Especially in the Bay Area, there were several customers who needed this business process to be implemented. Due to my consulting experience and my prior company’s experience, we already had a trusted relationship with the industry.

1Mby1M AI Investor Forum: Angel Investor Raju Reddy (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You know, we’ve had several discussions on AI-enabled drug discovery in, towards the end of last year. We have covered AI-enabled drug discovery on our blog quite extensively. It’s an area that I think is super exciting and super promising. Now, the conclusion that was coming out of those discussions was that drug

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Domain Knowledge, an Over-rated, Irrelevant factor in Leadership

One obstacle I run into constantly is that my clients insist on hiring from within the same industry. It can be a huge mistake. Why not hire someone who is just plain talented? Believe me, in six to eight months a talented marketing person, or manager, or strategist, will be able to learn everything there is to know about your business – and then there’s the bonus that your new executive is actually talented. IBM’s Lou Gerstner came from RJR Nabisco. Did IBM worry whether Gerstner would be able to switch from selling cookies to computers?