Catching Up On Readings: AI Market 2022

Gartner forecasts the AI software market will grow 21.3% to $62.5 billion in 2022 and that the top five use case categories for AI software spending in 2022 will be knowledge management, virtual assistants, autonomous vehicles, digital workplace, and crowdsourced data. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Colors: Pregnant Sky

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and

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Bootstrapping an Artificial Intelligence Startup with Services: Nitesh Chawla, Founder, Aunalytics (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That’s still a horizontal issue though. Connectors are still horizontal plumbing. There are a finite set of data warehouse that you need to connect to. As long as you have those, you are good. Where is the vertical logic coming from? Nitesh Chawla: Then we got through mapping workshops. We sit down with

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555th Roundtable Recording with Seksom Suriyapa, Upfront Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 555th 1Mby1M Roundtable with Seksom Suriyapa, Upfront Ventures

Roundtable Recap: December 2 – More on Exit Strategy

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Seksom Suriyapa, Partner at Upfront Ventures, and formerly head of Corp Dev at Twitter, SuccessFactors, McAfee and Akamai. Seksom discussed exit strategy from the buy-side perspective at length. OneNDF As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had 1Mby1M Premium member Nitin Khandelwal from New Delhi, India,

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Colors: Mountain Stream

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and

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Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Salesforce’s LevelJump Acquisition

Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) recently announced its third-quarter results that continued to surpass market expectations. The company is banking on acquisitions and partnerships to continue to drive its stellar growth.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Edge Hosting to $18 Million

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Vlad Friedman, CEO of Edge Hosting, had built his business using only bank financing when we spoke in 2016. Read how he did it and learn more about non-dilutive financing mechanisms. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from?

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