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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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Building a Fat Startup with a Massive Patent Portfolio: Cleversafe Founder Chris Gladwin (Part 4)
Sramana: You said you funded the seed round yourself. What were the milestones and accomplishments of that seed round? Chris Gladwin: I used not only capital but in the early rounds I was also able to use equity as a way to compensate initial employees. You can provide equity to people when you form the
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Katya Andresen, CEO of Cricket Media (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: I’m very interested in the business model. That’s one of the issues that we’re seeing in the Edtech industry. The business models are weak. Katya Andresen: I agree with you. It can be really hard to monetize a social network. That is not our model. Our model is that we have consumers –
Building a Fat Startup with a Massive Patent Portfolio: Cleversafe Founder Chris Gladwin (Part 3)
Sramana: What came next? Chris Gladwin: I started Cleversafe in 2004. Sramana: What was the core idea driving Cleversafe? Chris Gladwin: There were two aspects. First and foremost was the market. At that time, it appeared that the demand for data storage was going to grow rapidly and that has indeed been the case. It
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Katya Andresen, CEO of Cricket Media (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: I’d like to double-click down on some of these use cases and examples. Why don’t we pick three or four different scenarios, which are really interesting ways in which your customers and users are using the products. Katya Andresen: I’ll give you a couple of relevant examples. We have a product coming out
Building a Fat Startup with a Massive Patent Portfolio: Cleversafe Founder Chris Gladwin (Part 2)
Sramana: What did you do after Lockheed? Chris Gladwin: Lockheed was a very good experience because I got to learn what it meant to be a customer of technology products, particularly an enterprise customer. I essentially spent my time evaluating products. Eventually, I felt that I wanted to start building the technology instead of evaluating
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Katya Andresen, CEO of Cricket Media (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. It almost always is the case that Edtech companies don’t have solid monetization models. Cricket media is experimenting with models that are worth understanding. This interview also further elaborates on the issues raised in one of my articles, Are We In A Golden Age of Edtech?
Building a Fat Startup with a Massive Patent Portfolio: Cleversafe Founder Chris Gladwin (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. There aren’t many sub $100 million technology companies that can boast of a strong patent portfolio. Cleversafe is that rare exception, and hence, a tremendously valuable company with robust revenue growth in a $20 billion market. Sramana: Chris, let’s start with your background. Where are you
Bootstrapping Using Services: Krishna Kumar, CEO of AppOrchid (Part 7)
Sramana: How have you structured your technology to support these various use cases? Krishna Kumar: Our app building platform lets you build apps quickly for these various conditions. We use an agent-based model. That is a cool way of predicting human response conditions. We are mimicking the human intelligence response to different conditions and using