279th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Greg Gianforte, RightNow

Greg Gianforte, Founder and CEO of RightNow Technologies, took the company public, and later sold it to Oracle for $1.5 billion. He made an unorthodox choice of building the company mainly in Montana. Today, RightNow (now Oracle) is one of Montana’s largest employers.

278th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Daniel Cane, Modernizing Medicine

Daniel Cane, CEO and Co-founder of Modernizing Medicine, has followed a unique and tremendously effective strategy of raising equity crowdfunding from his customers, about 100 of them, and reflects on how well it has worked for him.

244th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Aaron Skonnard, Pluralsight

Aaron Skonnard, Founder and CEO of Pluralsight, one of the very few EdTech ventures out there that are scaling at Unicorn levels, discusses his journey over the last decade. Aaron bootstrapped Pluralsight to $16 million in revenue before raising a $27.5 million Series A at almost a $100 million valuation. From there on, the company has gone on to follow a roll-up strategy with additional funding and is currently valued at close to $1 billion.

255th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Fred Luddy, ServiceNow

Fred Luddy is Founder of ServiceNow, one of the most successful companies in the history of enterprise software. Founded in 2003, ServiceNow is valued at over $12 billion in the public market. This is a truly wonderful discussion, marked with Fred’s warmth, humility and wit: “We hire people with a lot of experience. We ask them to bring their knowledge, and leave their baggage!”

285th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Adam Singolda, Taboola

Adam Singolda, Founder CEO of Taboola, has had a fascinating journey as an entrepreneur. It took him four years to get product market fit, and today, the company is at over $200M in revenue. Persistence pays off. Resilience is the single most important characteristic that drives entrepreneurial success.

316th 1Mby1M Roundtable Podcast with Bryce Roberts, OATV and Indie.vc

Discussion with Bryce Roberts, Managing Director, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and Founder, Indie.vc. We covered the issues with the venture capital financing model, and explored alternatives.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sher Downing, Executive Director of Online Academic Services at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Engineering schools wanting to teach entrepreneurship is a different trend. What’s driving that trend is that engineering students and engineering graduates are the best equipped to start companies – especially when it comes to the whole IT kind of entrepreneurship which is the most prevalent form of entrepreneurship all over the world right

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sher Downing, Executive Director of Online Academic Services at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You said you have students taking your program internationally. Can you talk a bit more about where and what are the trends on that front? Sher Downing: We have two types of international students. One is those who are obviously living overseas. We also have students who travel quite a bit extensively for

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