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- The Accelerator Conundrum
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From PhD Student to Machine Learning Entrepreneur: SuperAnnotate CEO Tigran Petrosyan (Part 1)
Tigran and his brother were Ph.D. students when they decided to quit their Ph.D. program and build a company out of their Ph.D. research technology. They have since raised over $15M in funding and built a customer base of ~200 in their ML Ops business. They are leveraging countries like Armenia and Bangladesh for development
How NOT To Build a Startup: Ned Hill, CEO of Position Imaging (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me how you put one foot before the other. Try to tell the story of your lessons from the trenches. Did you have an investment thesis that panned out? Ned Hill: I had a business plan. Sramana Mitra: What were you going to do?
How NOT To Build a Startup: Ned Hill, CEO of Position Imaging (Part 1)
I seldom get to interview an entrepreneur who is candid about his mistakes. Yet, people tend to learn more from failures than from successes. In this story, you will see how Ned built technology looking for a problem to solve, an absolute no no.You will also see the negative impact of not validating your product
Blocking Ransomware at the Hard Drive Level: John Benkert, CEO of Cigent (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: When you did the spin off and InQTel was part of that process, were they aware of the kind of go-to-market that you were going to pursue? John Benkert: We explained what we wanted to do and why we wanted to do it. They were great partners and gave us great feedback. Sramana
Blocking Ransomware at the Hard Drive Level: John Benkert, CEO of Cigent (Part 1)
Ransomware is a key Cyber Security challenge that drives enterprises and governments crazy. John has built a very interesting company to address this problem with a unique approach and lots of patented Intellectual Property. In this case study, you will also learn a lot about Go To Market Strategy through Firmware. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go
Bootstrapping with Services at the Cusp of AI and FinTech: Vahe Andonians, Founder of Cognaize (Part 1)
In this case study, you will hear Vahe talk a lot about bootstrapping – bootstrapping to exit, bootstrapping with services, so on. You will also learn a nifty way of building domain knowledge on top of horizontal AI expertise. This is a valuable and extremely interesting way of building AI companies for entrepreneurs to consider.
Digital Nomad Building a $5M+ E-Commerce Business: IntelligentLabs CEO Rus Hughes (Part 1)
Rus lives the life of a digital nomad. He started life as a techie, and with a very small team and a cofounder, has built a $5M+ niche e-commerce business selling supplements. Excellent story full of lessons and nuances. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Tell me about where you
The Power of Bootstrapping: Achieving Small Exits for Capital-Efficient Startups
I’m a big advocate for building small, capital-efficient startups. Not all entrepreneurs need to chase Unicorns. Not all investors need to chase Unicorns. There are many more viable ideas for those smaller ventures and there are considerably more opportunities for their exits, which means cashing in earlier on your hard work. One type of exit
