Catching Up On Readings: State of Retail Tech

This report from CB Insights illustrates the state of retail tech. Funding and deals in retail tech continued to fall but there was strength in early stage deals. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: State of Streaming

This feature from Bloomberg by Lucas Shaw and Madeline Campbell analyzes the state of streaming business including the top streaming platforms and the top shows. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Startup Grind Global 2023

This feature from SFGATE covers the highlights of Startup Grind Global Conference held in Redwood City, California. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Best of Bootstrapping: Developer Entrepreneur Bootstrapped to $20M

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Numerous developers around the world are turning into successful entrepreneurs. NLP Cloud Founder CTO Julien Salinas provides a textbook case study of a brilliant journey that is a highly repeatable blueprint to follow.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Julien Salinas: I’m French. I live in France. I’m not located in the French Alps. I have a double degree in both business and engineering, especially computer science. I graduated 15 years ago. I initially started working as a consultant and doing product marketing. I was not very happy in my job.

I started coding in my personal time until I realized that maybe it was time to start a real career in programming. That’s what I did. Since then, things have been much easier for me. I did my first startup. Then a second one which is working very well.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to $35M, Then Raised $70M

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Teamwork.com Founder CEO Peter Coppinger has led a terrific vertical cloud business from Ireland and now runs a global SaaS company that is kicking ass.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Peter Coppinger: I’m the CEO of Teamwork.com. We are based in Ireland, but we have customers all over the world. I was born in West Cork, Ireland. At a young age, I was very inspired by the likes of Bill Gates. I couldn’t wait to get to college to get going. I thought I’d end up in the States. Somehow, I’m still in Ireland, but we do have a global footprint. I spend a lot of time in the States visiting customers.

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Catching Up On Readings: Retail Tech 100

This report from CB Insights unveiled the winners of the third annual Retail Tech 100 — a list of the 100 most promising private retail tech companies across the globe. This year’s winners are using technology to help retailers create more connected and personalized experiences and drive efficiency and profitability. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: Top Cybersecurity Predictions 

This report from Garner explores the future of cyber security with its top eight cyber security predictions for 2023-2024 at the recently held Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit in Sydney. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Catching Up On Readings: State of AI 2022

This report from CB Insights covers the funding trends and highlights of the AI ecosystem. Global AI funding fell 34% to $45.88B in 2022 but rebounded in Q4’22, which had five new AI unicorns. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.