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Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. The technology startup market is red hot in 2014, and private company valuations have sky-rocketed. MongoDB has raised over $200 million, and is trying to disrupt the Database market. The company they see most often in deals is Oracle. A very interesting case study of a
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Ray Martinez, Chancellor of WGU Texas (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Adult education is becoming more of an issue. Competency-based learning that ties into employment directly is necessary to mitigate the unemployment problems in America and elsewhere. WGU has an interesting model. Sramana Mitra: Ray, let’s start by giving our audience a little bit of background about
Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 7)
Sramana: Was Terapeak based in Toronto as well? Kevin North: No, it was based in Victoria, BC. It was on Vancouver Island. Sramana: What was the financing strategy of the company before and after?
Bootstrapping to $20 Million in Charleston, South Carolina: eGroup CEO Mike Carter (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: You seem to have a regional emphasis. Does that mean that your sales cycle has been an in-person sales cycle? Mike Carter: Yes. Traditionally, our sales process has been person to person. We have invested quite a bit in our digital presence and we are doing things from creating ourselves as an inbound
Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 6)
Sramana: What was the state of the company when you came in? Kevin North: There were some really good people who had been making great technology. The founders were great and they understood Big Data very well. The only issue was that their organization was not scalable. The goal was to turn it into a
Bootstrapping to $20 Million in Charleston, South Carolina: eGroup CEO Mike Carter (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How did revenue track in that timeframe? Mike Carter: The first 10 years, we were very immature from a strategy standpoint. It’s only been in the last five years that we evolved in what we’re doing, in terms of investing, and saw a much more strategic approach emerge. Quite honestly, there’s an aspect
Canadian Real Time Big Data Company’s Excellent Thought Leadership: Terapeak CEO Kevin North (Part 5)
Sramana: What kind of intelligence is the analytic engine capable of producing? I imagine the merchants are the paying customer so I am interested in what you can do for them and what the engagement or pricing model is. Kevin North: The customers are the merchants that are selling on eBay. We have a range
Bootstrapping to $20 Million in Charleston, South Carolina: eGroup CEO Mike Carter (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: It sounds like what you used in the beginning is a technique that we see repeatedly. I’ve written a book on this particular technique – Bootstrapping Using Services. The advantage of having services in the bootstrapping stage is that cash starts coming in early. You don’t’ have to take a long, red-ink faith