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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Peter Hirst, Executive Director of Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Management (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: They’re used to texting non-stop. One form of social interaction could be just having an instant messenger and they’re doing their group study that way. There’s one other thought that comes to my mind in relation to the media industries parallel that we touched upon earlier. There is this whole thing happening in
Bootstrapping a Fun Social Business: Paint Nite CEO Dan Hermann (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: All the online ticket processing happens through your central website? Dan Hermann: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Is this self-financed? Dan Hermann: That’s one of the really great things about this business. We’re completely self-financed. Our financing engine is based on the fact that people purchase a ticket for a future event, but they don’t
Disrupting Cloud-based Recruiting: SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternynck (Part 5)
Sramana: When did you reach the $5 million mark? Jerome Ternynck: We passed that mark some time ago. From a revenue standpoint, it hasn’t been our focus in that we really want to build a tool that people love using. Sramana: If you are a venture funded company, you must focus on revenue. Jerome Ternynck:
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Peter Hirst, Executive Director of Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Management (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: It starts to get very tricky because we also have weekly roundtables, which are live sessions where people are gathering from all over the world. They are networking. It’s like a class. There’s instructors and students. There’s networking and relationship-building. All of that phenomenon can, to a degree at least, be simulated online.
Bootstrapping a Fun Social Business: Paint Nite CEO Dan Hermann (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How many people showed up? Dan Hermann: We essentially got our friends and family to attend. We were gauging their reactions. Both of us wanted to dip our toes into the business. We had intentionally chosen a business that we thought we could try without having to spend a ton of money. The other thing
Disrupting Cloud-Based Recruiting: SmartRecruiters CEO Jerome Ternynck (Part 4)
Sramana: Up to the point that you launched the professional version, how were you generating revenue? Jerome Ternynck: One of the advantages of SmartRecruiters is that in the workspace we have a store where customers can spend their recruiting budget. In that store you can buy services such as advertising job postings which can include
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Peter Hirst, Executive Director of Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Management (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: That’s a big value proposition that is still part of society. When we were in university and college, there were certain social relationships that formed that ended up being valuable social relationships. A lot of people’s closest friendships get formed earlier in life and a lot of it is college friendships. These are
Bootstrapping a Fun Social Business: Paint Nite CEO Dan Hermann (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: When people show up for the class, what are they buying? When they’re buying tickets to attend these events, are they buying for just the class or the drinks as well? Dan Hermann: They’re buying a ticket to attend a class. We like to call it an event rather than a class. We