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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
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Coby Sella, CEO of Sansa Security (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Your primary go-to-market strategy is an OEM strategy? Coby Sella: Yes. Our goal is to deploy as many clients as possible. Our footprint in the industry today is about a quarter of a billion devices using Sansa technology, whether it is Sansa providing platform security capabilities or Sansa delivering embedded software within the trusted
Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Abraham Gutman, CEO of AG Mednet (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: My next question is from an industry point of view. What are the trends and where do you see open problems that are perhaps not in your product roadmap but are things that you are seeing just because of your deep penetration and insight of the space? Where do you see the problems
Building a Secondary Ticketing Business From Spain: Ander Michelena, CEO of Ticketbis (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: The numbers you are quoting are amazing. Even in India, you cannot get a great engineer for $25,000. Ander Michelena: You can get very good talent at a cheaper rate. That is one of our main competitive advantages. We are almost more than 300 people in the company at this point. Most of
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Coby Sella, CEO of Sansa Security (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: In that case, the software that you are delivering goes as embedded systems? Coby Sella: Sansa’s solution actually requires implementation of clients. These clients will be embedded within the SOC. We are relying on the SOC’s platform security. This could be a piece of software in a secure environment. For the sake of
Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Abraham Gutman, CEO of AG Mednet (Part 6)
Abraham Gutman: Another level of quality analysis that we do is on the meta data in the images. You know how JPEGs have some meta data. It has a little bit of GPS stuff. In a JPEG, you may have a few dozen meta tags, so to speak. In a medical image, you have several
Building a Secondary Ticketing Business From Spain: Ander Michelena, CEO of Ticketbis (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s step back. What I’m trying to trace here is more of a case study of the entrepreneur’s journey. What was the first thing that you did when you launched the company? It sounds like you were able to convince investors. What kind of investors were these? Ander Michelena: The good thing about