1Mby1M Udemy Courses with Sramana Mitra: Domain Knowledge

At 1Mby1M, we believe in learning from case studies of successful entrepreneurs. These case studies involve discussions on opportunities and challenges specific to the domain such as Generative AI, E-Commerce, Digital Health, Cyber Security, and FinTech. 

Smart City Use Cases and Opportunities: Jay Chandan, CEO of Gorilla Technology (Part 1)

Jay talks about Gorilla’s Smart City system integration business that heavily focuses on IoT security, analytics, and workflow. In the end, we discuss open problems that could warrant new entrepreneurs building startups around.

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

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an IoT Company from North Carolina

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

North Carolina, at one point, had a large concentration of cellular technology companies. Some of that talent then came together around IoT, including Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions. He shared his journey with me in 2016.

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 circumstances?

Bob Witter: I was born in Springville, New York. It’s in the western part of New York. I grew up in central New York. I went to school at State University of New York and graduated in 1981 with degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics. I started my career in Rochester with Eastman Kodak company in the medical products division that was brand new at that time. I learned a great deal about how to do medical products that has certainly served me well even today at Device Solutions.

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Thought Leaders on Internet of Things: Ordr CEO Greg Murphy (Part 1)

IoT Security is a huge vulnerability all over the world at the moment. Greg breaks down the problem into opportunities for innovators to offer solutions.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the company.

Greg Murphy: I’m the CEO at Ordr. We’re the leader in connected device security focusing on IoT and all connected devices in the enterprise.

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: CleanConnect CEO David Conley (Part 1)

David discusses problems, solutions, and open problems in this interview about AI and IoT in the Oil and Gas sector.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing you to our audience and talk about your background and the company.

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Tim Panagos, CTO of Microshare (Part 1)

We discuss IoT use cases in commercial real estate and the open opportunities thereof.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company.

Tim Panagos: I’m the Founder and CTO of Microshare. We’re the market-leading wireless IoT platform built for commercial real estate.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click on that and talk about how IoT features in real estate.

Building a Capital-Efficient, Highly Scalable Smart City IoT Venture: LYT CEO Timothy Menard (Part 1)

You would think deep tech AI / IoT startups take gobs of venture capital to build. Read on to see how Tim has built an incredibly capital-efficient business with massive growth potential using grant money and revenues. Superb company!

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from, born, and raised? What kind of background are you from?

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Ayyeka CEO Ariel Stern (Part 1)

IoT companies have often been system integrators. Ariel discusses an end-to-end solution strategy that includes both hardware and software.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Ayyeka.

8 Validated Enterprise Software Startup Ideas for the DataStax-1Mby1M Challenge

The DataStax-1Mby1M Fall 2021 Startup Challenge launched on September 9th. Here is the kick-off video with Chet Kapoor, CEO of DataStax, Ed Anuff, Chief Product Officer of DataStax discussing the program with me.

DataStax has significant enterprise customers that are using their Apache Cassandra-based database products to solve real world problems. They are putting these use cases out in the public domain for startups to build companies around. DataStax would be helping the startups on the technical and customer acquisition side, and 1Mby1M would be helping the startups on the positioning, mentoring, and financing side. $10,000 of grant money is also included in this challenge.

Let’s look at some of the use cases. They’re all related to the increasingly digital nature of most businesses. The ever-growing use of IoT is a good example. Verticals that manage many assets need real-time access to data for visibility and decision purposes. Organizations interacting directly with customers need to ensure they are engaged with the right customer, and they have a digital twin of the customer to drive services and experiences. These experiences and services are entirely digital and depend on real-time data access. Finally, organizations drive their intelligence and decisions by understanding and leveraging the increasingly vast amount of data they manage. Here are more details.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Triax CEO Robert Costantini (Part 1)

Triax has seen tremendous acceleration due to Covid for its wearables-based IoT technology. Interesting perspective.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Triax.

Robert Constantini: I’m the CEO of Triax Technologies for 18 months since the fall of 2019, right before COVID. My background is in Finance and Law. I’ve got 30 years of broad executive experience in public and private companies, mostly in high-growth technology and industrial companies. Early on, I developed a passion for technology. That goes way back.

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Sridhar Iyengar, CEO of Elemental Machines (Part 1)

We observed the movement of system administrators becoming DevOps engineers.

Sridhar is leading an effort of moving lab administrators becoming LabOps engineers with the help of cutting edge technology like IoT.