Can You Do It All? BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker (Part 3)

SM: After you gave up freelance programming, did you find a job? TT: I received a job offer from ADS Associates, but I was five months pregnant. My mother told me that I had to tell them I was pregnant; otherwise, they would never trust me.

Can You Do It All? BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker (Part 2)

SM: What year was that? TT: That was in 1981. I fell in love with programming. The very first computer program I wrote was a blinking Christmas tree with asterisks. That was the only computer course that Wesleyan offered; however, the University of Illinois was a couple of hours away. They have a very good

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Can You Do It All? BlackLine CEO Therese Tucker (Part 1)

Therese Tucker is the CEO and founder of BlackLine Systems, an account reconciliation and financial close software provider. Prior to that she served as CTO at SunGard Treasury Systems. Therese was comfortably retired from SunGard – and had two school-age children at home – when she decided to merge her two talents, technology and finance,

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A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 7)

SM: Why did you buy your shares back from Softbank, and why did Softbank allow you to do that? JK: When VCs invest in a business, the have an expectation of a profitable exit. By 2009, Softbank had been invested for five years and we were profitable, but they had not received a return on

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“Work With Marty Nemko” Radio Interview

Sramana Mitra recently shared some lessons from India on becoming an entrepreneur and discussed her book Vision India 2020 with Marty Nemko on KALW Radio (NPR San Francisco). To hear or download the show, click HERE. Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra is available from Amazon.com and Flipkart.com.

A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 6)

SM: In the ten years you have been in business, how has the business progressed? Where have you made money and gained traction? JK: We have had good traction. In the early years we were viral, explosive, and unique. That lasted for three years and allowed us to launch with no marketing money. When the

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Filled With Terrific And Hard-Won Insight

From Jim Stroup’s review of Innovation: Need Of The Hour (Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 4) by Sramana Mitra on his blog, Managing Leadership: “A particularly valuable characteristic of these [Entrepreneur Journeys] books is that Mitra’s own thinking on the theme of each book is organized into a clearly-structured argument which is then expressed in brief, lucid essays,

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A Real-Time, Multimedia Social Network You Might Not Know: Paltalk CEO Jason Katz (Part 5)

SM: Who do you consider your competitors based on where your business is today? JK: Skype certainly is when it comes to video conferencing. They did a great job with the PC to phone service, although we had that offering before they did. I personally think Skype did a great job recognizing that international calling

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