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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch gears a little bit. If you were to advise entrepreneurs who are interested in working in the domain of online education, where would you point them? Where do you see open opportunities to build businesses in? Todd Hitchcock: There are a lot of inflection points. We know that there
Identifying Customer Pain Through Consulting Services: Tealium Co-Founder & President, Ali Behnam (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to get the product to market? Ali Behnam: Probably about a year. We had an early version of the product that we released in January 2011 but didn’t do everything we wanted it to do. Another six months later in July of 2011, we finally launched Tealium
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: That’s only true if you’re looking at those local types of businesses. We work globally and we work on only digital entrepreneurships – IT, IT-enabled services types of businesses. That’s non-local and a lot of it is very scalable. We’re seeing a lot of interest from entrepreneurs all around the world – not
Identifying Customer Pain Through Consulting Services: Tealium Co-Founder & President, Ali Behnam (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: You wanted to make the switch to a product company with a hypothesis that this is what you think is needed in the market. You wanted to switch off your consulting business and turn it into a product company in 2011? Ali Behnam: A big part of the product that we had built
Thought Leaders in Online Education: Todd Hitchcock, COO of Pearson Embanet (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: In what kinds of disciplines are you seeing the maximum online adoption? Is it engineering, nursing, or business? Todd Hitchcock: Traditionally, there has been a lot of growth in business and engineering. We see a tremendous amount of growth in healthcare professions. We see growth in degree programs that are associated directly with
Building a Pre-IPO Company Over 10 Years: Centrify CEO Tom Kemp (Part 7)
Sramana: How did the business ramp from 2004 onwards? Tom Kemp: The ramp has been really good. We formed the company in 2004 and we did not ship product until 2005. We did over $1 million in our first calendar year. The next year we grew to $3 million. In 2007, we grew it to
Identifying Customer Pain Through Consulting Services: Tealium Co-Founder & President, Ali Behnam (Part 2)
Ali Behnam: Early on as we got engaged in our analytics practice, we realized that there is a big need for help with tagging. A lot of customers were unsatisfied with their analytics implementation. The number one cause of that dissatisfaction was the fact that their implementation was not done in a proper way and
Building a Pre-IPO Company Over 10 Years: Centrify CEO Tom Kemp (Part 6)
Sramana: What is your algorithm for determining how big your TAM is? When you explore a new product idea, how large does the TAM have to be for that product to make it viable? Tom Kemp: People get lulled into repeating what analysts or others say about the market. If an analyst says there is