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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART Technologies (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You are bringing in students from different countries together, and you have some sort of a social media element to your platform. You have teachers and experts from different domains on that platform who can operate across the school boundaries. Warren Barkley: It’s not quite like that. Basically, as a teacher, I have
Building an Exciting Healthcare IT Company From Chicago: LaunchPoint CEO Terry Ryan (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: So about 2008, you were done with HP? Terry Ryan: That’s when I started the current business I’m running. I had successful exits in the 90s with companies in which I was an early employee but I wasn’t a founder of those companies. I had some nice exits in three or four cases before I
Aiming to Dominate Real Estate Brokerage: Robert Reffkin, CEO of Urban Compass (Part 1)
Urban Compass is trying to disrupt the real estate industry with a tech-savvy brokerage model. They have raised $70 million and are currently valued at $360 million based on the last funding round. Listen to Robert Reffkin explain why he thinks the company will dominate the industry. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Warren Barkley, CTO of SMART Technologies (Part 2)
Warren Barkley: One of the things we’ve seen worldwide is this movement in the pedagogy where teachers want to have very small bites of information which have project work attached to it. Then they let the kids work on that project inside or outside the classroom. A lot of teachers want that kind of learning to
Building an Exciting Healthcare IT Company From Chicago: LaunchPoint CEO Terry Ryan (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: They were very heavy. I’m a very small woman having to carry this heavy laptop. It was no fun at all. What was the first company? Terry Ryan: It was called Knightsbridge. It was a company that was focused on Big Data architectures. This was in the early 90s before it was cool
Building a Secondary Ticketing Business From Spain: Ander Michelena, CEO of Ticketbis (Part 5)
Ander Michelena: In 2012, Ticketbis was growing strongly and very fast with very good margin. The other business was growing but it was something that was stopping us from concentrating on one thing. We decided to close it. The learning we got out of that is if something is working very well, don’t try to do
Building an Exciting Healthcare IT Company From Chicago: LaunchPoint CEO Terry Ryan (Part 1)
At the cusp of three major trends, Big Data, Cloud Computing, and Healthcare IT, Terry Ryan is building a very interesting company from Chicago. The company is profitable, already of substantial scale, and at a very exciting juncture. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journeys. Where are you from? Where were
Building a Secondary Ticketing Business From Spain: Ander Michelena, CEO of Ticketbis (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: So people were just finding you through organic Google search basically. Ander Michelena: Yes, we were using SEM, SEO, and affiliates to get traffic. That was what it was. Before we launched in other countries, we were only based in Spain. With that million euros, we created the website and made it compatible