Bootstrapping With A Paycheck From Atlanta: Ingenious Med Founder Steve Liu (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Was the company based in Washington? Steve Liu: In Atlanta, actually. The hospital medicine job that I got was in Atlanta. Sramana Mitra: I see. You recruited a CEO who would run the company in Atlanta? Steve Liu: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: How did you find this person? What was the criteria and process

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck From Atlanta: Ingenious Med Founder Steve Liu (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What’s the next milestone? How far did you go with the angel financing? Steve Liu: We grew and then there was a point where we needed more formal funding from an institutional investor. That’s when we brought in Buckhead Investment. They came in about nine years ago. The initial round was a couple

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck From Atlanta: Ingenious Med Founder Steve Liu (Part 1)

We just launched out Bootstrapping With A Paycheck book, the 11th volume in the Entrepreneur Journeys series. Here’s yet another instance of a very successful company being built in this mode. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised, and in what kind

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Building a Healthcare IT Company out of Georgia: Reach Health Founder Grant Kohler (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about how exactly that move played out. Grant Kohler: We started to get some outside requests from clients who wanted to use our system to provide things other than just strokes. Two of the other service lines were based around trauma patients coming into the ER and patients that were possibly

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: A Vision Well Worth Pursuing

Here is a review by Indu Kodukula from Menlo Park, California: “Ms. Mitra’s Vision India 2020 book is a great roadmap for turning the current promise of India into something that’s more permanent. Many of the ideas make tremendous sense, have market relevance and if implemented can change the center of gravity of technology innovation.

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Celebrating MIT’s 150th Anniversary: Alumni Ian Clemens, Founder Of IDV Solutions (Part 7)

Sramana: Are there no other companies out there that take your same philosophical approach to visualization? Ian Clemens: Contextualized visualization for companies like Tableau is an afterthought. What they are doing is rapid visualization, which remains technical and is very much a power user function. It is not very contextual. Mapping is often a product

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Positioning Discussed On BlogTalkRadio

Kenneth Darryl Brown and Sramana Mitra recently discussed her book Positioning: How To Test, Validate, And Bring Your Idea To Market on BlogTalkRadio’s The Passionate Entrepreneur! You can listen to the entire interview here. Positioning by Sramana Mitra is available from Amazon.com and Flipkart.com.

Building India’s Amazon: Flipkart CEO Sachin Bansal (Part 7)

Sramana: Does your customer base access Flipkart only through desktops and laptops? Sachin Bansal: We have mobile commerce, but it has very little traction.