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Building a Fashion Accessories Marketplace from London: Kiyan Foroughi, CEO of Boticca (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to 2010 when you were launching Boticca. Tell me more about how you got this off the ground. What did you launch with? What was the financing around it? Kiyan Foroughi: I actually launched an alpha version of the website on my own. I’m not a technical guy so I
Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 3)
Gaurav Dhillon: Let me take you through that journey. I still remember how excited we were. Once we got the grant, we built the research into the object databases. The truth is they never got anywhere. Then we thought, “Why don’t we build technology to help people downsize?” This is 1995 and you’re running a COBOL program on a
Building a Fashion Accessories Marketplace from London: Kiyan Foroughi, CEO of Boticca (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What did you do to address that issue? Kiyan Foroughi: Before I jump into that, there’s one thing I want to add. I told you about my professional background. In terms of my family heritage, I come from a background of jewelry. I’m the fourth generation in the luxury industry on my mother’s side.
Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Prior to Informatica, your work experience was with Unisys? Gaurav Dhillon: That’s correct. Sramana Mitra: Did you come up with the concept for Informatica while you were at Unisys? Gaurav Dhillon: We wanted to break up into our own along this whole point server downsizing process. Believe it or not, the co-founders applied
Building a Fashion Accessories Marketplace from London: Kiyan Foroughi, CEO of Boticca (Part 1)
I continue to be interested in how the fashion industry is slowly and surely finding innovative ways to leverage the Internet. Kiyan Foroughi has created a marketplace for fashion accessories that is scaling nicely and helping new designers find a customer base. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal story. Where
Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 1)
Gaurav Dhillon founded Informatica, took it public, and ran it for 12 years before handing the reins over to Sohaib Abbasi, its current CEO. Five years ago, he founded SnapLogic, a company that has raised almost $60 million in venture capital and has tripled in revenue last year. Gaurav knows a thing or two about
Disinfecting Hospitals, Impacting Healthcare: Morris Miller, CEO of Xenex (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: They allowed you to publish the results as well? Morris Miller: They actually published it in the journal of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. It’s called ICHE. It was very well received and passed peer review. In March of 2011, when we really could begin selling in earnest, we had our prototypes. We sold
Disinfecting Hospitals, Impacting Healthcare: Morris Miller, CEO of Xenex (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Did you take some time off then? Morris Miller: I did. I took a little time off. I realized that it isn’t consistent with what I wanted to do at all. Then we started looking at different kinds of deals. We invested in a medical startup. That was my first really big investment after that.