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. 

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Jim Xiao, CEO of Mason (Part 1)

Jim is building an AWS or Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service company for rapid deployment of IOT products and use cases.

Startups can also leverage the platform to quickly build IoT products. Fascinating discussion. 

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

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174th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Jim Xiao, Mason

Jim Xiao, CEO of Mason, is building an AWS or Azure Infrastructure-as-a-Service company for rapid deployment of IOT products and use cases. Startups can also leverage the platform to quickly build IoT products. Fascinating discussion. 

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175th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Sridhar Iyengar, Elemental Machines

Sridhar Iyengar is CEO at Elemental Machines. 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.

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Guillermo Diaz, CEO of Kloudspot (Part 1)

Guillermo takes us through IoT use cases in workplace safety in the changing post-Covid world.

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

Guillermo Diaz: I am the CEO of Kloudspot. We call ourselves a situational awareness and intelligence platform that is designed to understand and ingest large amounts of data from IoT sensors. We convert them through our platform into contextualization about people and assets. We provide awareness and predictive actions in an automated fashion. We take action on those predictions to ultimately drive the outcomes of safe and engaging experiences. 

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Sanjay Brahmawar, CEO of Software AG (Part 1)

Software AG is redefining itself as an IoT PaaS company.

Sanjay talks about the transformation.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start introducing our audience to yourself as well as Software AG. I know that the company has been around for a while but you are on a transformational journey. Let’s understand where you started and where you are going. 

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Ben Forgan, CEO of Hologram (Part 1)

Ben discusses IoT connectivity and use cases.

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

Ben Forgan: I’m the CEO of Hologram. Hologram is a connectivity startup focused on providing internet access for IoT devices. We talk about wanting to be able to connect any device to any network instantaneously anywhere. That is our vision for the product. In basic terms, you can think of it as phone plans for things that aren’t phones. We have been around for about seven years now. We are just chugging away. 

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Joe Lea, VP of Product at Armis (Part 1)

Connected devices are everywhere and will soon also be implanted in our bodies.

This poses an enormous security challenge. Joe and I discuss the open problems and some partial solutions, including where there are opportunities for new entrepreneurs.

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

Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Flavio Gomes, CEO of LogiSense (Part 1)

Differential pricing based on differential usage of devices. Fascinating conversation!

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

Flavio Gomes: I’m the Founder and CEO of LogiSense Corporation. My business has been around for just a bit over 20 years. It was officially incorporated in 1998, but its history goes back to the early 90’s when I started one of the first regional ISPs in our community. It was in the very early days. It was about 1992 to 1993 when the internet was a new medium.

At that time, things were very expensive to operate. We built a lot of the technologies and tools to manage that business. One of those tools were the
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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Todd Greene, CEO of PubNub (Part 1)

Connected devices are creating very interesting opportunities for new types of businesses. Read on for more insights.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by having you introduce yourself as well as PubNub to our audience.

Todd Greene: I am a multi-time entrepreneur. PubNub is a company that I helped start as one of the two co-founders. It was a side project for me until 2012 but full-time for my co-founder, Stephen Blum, who ran the company. In 2012, we raised our first angel round. PubNub is an interesting company. The best way to think about it is the infrastructure needed by developers for software that powers real-time experiences. >>>

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Greg Borchardt of Caerus Ventures (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Greg Borchardt of Caerus Ventures was recorded in February 2018. 

Greg Borchardt is Co-founder and Managing Partner at Caerus Ventures, a firm that has a focus on connected hardware. It’s an interesting and differentiated investment thesis that is worth listening to, especially for IoT entrepreneurs.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us about Caerus Ventures. What is your sweet spot? What is the size of the fund? What kind of investments do you like to make? What’s the focus? >>>