675th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 675th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 6, at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 5 p.m. CET / 9:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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Building a New Age AI Services Company: Cognida CEO Feroze Mohammed (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: So, I’ve a number of questions. First and foremost, you said you acquired or acqui-hired the software from somebody that you started with. What is the financing of this company? Did you raise money? Did you self-finance? How did you acquire?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $45 Million from Chicago

RKON Technologies CEO Jeff Mullarkey had built a Managed Service Provider (MSP) business that I thought he could take to $500 million or a billion dollars in revenue when we spoke in 2015. Read on to learn why.

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

Jeff Mullarkey: I’m from the Chicago area. I grew up in a modest environment. I went to Illinois State University. I graduated with a Marketing degree with little clue of what I want. Right at this moment in time, personal computers had started to emerge. I frankly had never even used one. I stumbled into taking a job selling PCs. That’s how I got into the industry. It was a little bit by fluke. It was a very small industry at that time. This was 1986. That was how I got into IT.

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Building a New Age AI Services Company: Cognida CEO Feroze Mohammed (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So, talk about what you pitched to your first clients and how you got them. Where does this begin?

Feroze Mohammed: Sure. I think even before we started, one thing we learned from our journey in Sierra Atlantic and later with Hitachi is to play the game only when you have an unfair advantage to win. And that comes from having very specific differentiation.

Building a New Age AI Services Company: Cognida CEO Feroze Mohammed (Part 1)

IT Services is going through a profound shift. Huge opportunity for more companies like Palantir to be built. This discussion parses the nuances of building such ventures. Needless to say, VC money is now going to flood into this model.

AI Unicorns: Synthesia Successfully Integrates AI in Video Content Creation

Through a recent funding round, London-based Synthesia recently became the UK’s most valuable Gen-AI media company. The company continues to grow rapidly within the video-content creation space.

Colors: Dark Sky I

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 I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Dark Sky I

Dark Sky I | Sramana Mitra, 2022 | Watercolor, Ink | 8 x 8, On Paper

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