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Serial Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh: Ron Bianchini’s Amazing Journey (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: So in 2004, you sold to NetApp. Did you work for NetApp? Ron Bianchini: I did. Sramana Mitra: For how long? Ron Bianchini: As part of the acquisition, we all had two-year golden handcuffs, but I stayed for four years. Sramana Mitra: To work for NetApp, did you have to move to Silicon
Serial Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh: Ron Bianchini’s Amazing Journey (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: That’s good. John Jarve is also an MIT grad by the way. Ron Bianchini: I know. Have you met him? Sramana Mitra: Yes, several times. Ron Bianchini: He’s on my Board in my third company now. Sramana Mitra: You raised a lot of money for Spinnaker. How long did it take you to
Serial Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh: Ron Bianchini’s Amazing Journey (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: So this is the story of your first company. What happens next? Ron Bianchini: I stayed at FORE for about four years. In three years’ time, we were acquired by Marconi Communications. They acquired us and I stayed there another year. In 2000, I left. Having been a professor in the past, intellectual distance
Successful Pivots on Product, Market, Business Model: Gigya Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer Eyal Magen (Part 3)
Eyal Magen: We quickly found out that the best way to market our product is by working together with a small industry that provided content for Myspace pages. It was the beginning of the mashup era where you can grab a piece of code and post it on your page. This content could be a music
Serial Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh: Ron Bianchini’s Amazing Journey (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: We can go on and on about Computer Science, but what did you do after Carnegie Mellon? Ron Bianchini: I graduated in 1989. They asked me to stay on as a professor. So, I stayed on and taught. I very much enjoyed Computer Engineering. When my dad was at NYU and even when
Serial Entrepreneurship in Pittsburgh: Ron Bianchini’s Amazing Journey (Part 1)
Ron is a fellow MIT alumnus who went to Carnegie Mellon for his PhD, and subsequently has done three successful systems ventures. This story offers insights into his methodology. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of your story. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? Ron Bianchini: I
Achieving Product-Market Fit That Allows You to Build Billion Dollar Unicorns: Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: The story is very different for a Dave Duffield starting Workday or a Gaurav Dhillon starting SnapLogic, because most of the people who are starting companies without that kind of track record do not have the options that you have. They have to figure out some way to navigate that early cash issue. Gaurav
Serial Entrepreneur Building a Luxury Business: Trevor Traina, CEO of IfOnly (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: It’s so hard to get that timing right, isn’t it? Trevor Traina: It’s hard to get the timing perfect, but I find that if you really listen to your inner voice and talk to other people, you can pretty much figure out which spaces are important and growing and which spaces aren’t. I