PaaS: Why I Am So Excited

I have spent a decade already on One Million by One Million with the mission of helping a million entrepreneurs reach their first million in revenues.

The journey has led me down many corridors of technology.

The one that excites me the most is Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

Today, there are easily 200+ B-to-B SaaS companies out there, including 50+ public ones. The IPO market for cloud stocks is rich and we will see many others go public in due course. These are solid companies, nothing foo-foo about them.

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Cloud Stocks: Intuit Targets Online User Base Through Acquisition

Quickbooks’s parent company Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) is the talk of the town these days. Not only did it deliver stellar second quarter results, but the company also recently announced a $7.1 billion acquisition – its biggest acquisition till date.

Flying Thought Turbulent Skies: Joel Thomas, CEO of Stratos Jets (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about the next few strategic steps of how you put one foot before the other.

Joel Thomas: When I tried to incorporate, we didn’t have a merchant processor. If you’re working locally with people, it’s easy enough to get a wire. People who utilize our service are called unscheduled, on-demand air transport. People need this service last minute.

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A Serial “Data” Entrepreneur’s Journey: Bassel Ojjeh, CEO of LigaData (Part 2)

Bassel Ojjeh: Backing up, what’s really important when I started my career at the database company in Ohio was coming in and saying, “We’re working out of someone’s house.” At that time, we shipped products. You put it in the box and put it out the door.

We had to stop whatever we were doing at 4PM to make sure that we go to the shipping room and be ready for UPS. I saw the company grow from there to the point where UPS would send empty trucks on an hourly basis to load up all the boxes we had every day. I saw how we grew to that point.

Flying Thought Turbulent Skies: Joel Thomas, CEO of Stratos Jets (Part 1)

Entrepreneurs seldom discuss the emotional and spiritual trauma of things going wrong.

Joel’s story is a deeply felt and authentically told one where he shares how he survived immense setbacks and found the courage to keep going.

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

GoDaddy is on a Shopping Spree

The global internet domain name provider GoDaddy (NYSE: GDDY) reported mixed results for the fourth quarter of the year. While revenues surpassed market expectations, its earnings failed to do so. But a strong outlook sent the stock soaring 11% in the after-hours trading session.

A Serial “Data” Entrepreneur’s Journey: Bassel Ojjeh, CEO of LigaData (Part 1)

Bassel is a serial entrepreneur in the data world and talks about his exciting startup journey.

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?

470th Roundtable Recording on January 30, 2020: With Osayi Igharo, Ripple VC

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469th Roundtable Recording on January 23, 2020

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