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Internet of Things
1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Borchardt of Caerus Ventures (Part 1)
Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Greg Borchardt of Caerus Ventures was recorded in February 2018. Greg Borchardt is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Caerus Ventures, a firm that has a focus on connected hardware. It’s an interesting and differentiated investment thesis
Bootstrapping to $30 Million from Czech Republic: Vaclav Muchna, CEO of YSoft (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Have you started seeing revenues escalate from that yet? Vaclav Muchna: In the United States, this year we are going to be close to $3 million. Our business has a very long sales cycle. We expect that the bigger revenue growth is going to happen next year. Sramana Mitra: You said you did
Bootstrapping to $30 Million from Czech Republic: Vaclav Muchna, CEO of YSoft (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: It must have been very helpful for you to recruit a bunch of channel partners who would then go and sell that same solution to other major players. Vaclav Muchna: Exactly. Once they started with us, there was another deal with the headquarters of a central European bank. That helped us to build the relationship
Bootstrapping to $30 Million from Czech Republic: Vaclav Muchna, CEO of YSoft (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What year are we talking about? Vaclav Muchna: 2003. In 2002, we launched that web server. We had to produce 20 terminals and we had no money. I tried to go to the bank but, of course, they didn’t let us borrow anything. There were only few VC funds. The VC market almost
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Frank Greer, CEO of Zipit Wireless (Part 3)
Frank Greer: As long as the product is in the market, we will be operating this cloud infrastructure. It gave them the confidence to have a partner that could do all of those things. It let them focus to come up with the product, source the product, manufacture the product, and get it distributed. They
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Frank Greer, CEO of Zipit Wireless (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go through some use cases. It sounds like you cater to different industry sectors. Take IoT use cases from three different sectors and let’s walk through them. Frank Greer: A great example for a company that we helped is Bushnell. Bushnell is a well-known brand in the outdoor products category. They’re well-known
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Frank Greer, CEO of Zipit Wireless (Part 1)
Let’s review some more IoT use-cases through Frank’s eyes. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of the Zipit story. Tell us a bit about the company. What do you do? How do you do what you do? Also, give us a bit of your background. Frank Greer: I’m the CEO of Zipit Wireless.
Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Tom Bianculli, Vice President of Technology Office at Zebra Technologies (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: If you lift yourself to the 30,000-foot level, what trends really excite you and where do you see open problems that need to be tackled by new entrepreneurs? Tom Bianculli: There are these three things that we talk about a lot. There’s IoT, cloud, and mobility. The three of those are coming together. We’re going
