Roundtable Recap: July 22 – Bootstrap Using Services

This week’s roundtable had several interesting discussions around techniques for bootstrapping, both in the entrepreneur pitches, as well as during the Q&A. One of the most effective mechanics that I know for bootstrapping the early phases of a startup venture is by using services – consulting services, contact development work – such that you can

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July 22 Roundtable Recording

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Can You Do It All? Eventbrite Cofounder And Mother Julia Hartz (Part 1)

Julia is cofounder and president of Eventbrite and is responsible for the overall vision and strategy of the company. She is a former television network executive and comes to Eventbrite by way of Hollywood. During her tenure in the television industry, Julia was a creative executive at FX Networks and helped to supervise “The Shield,”

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Outsourcing: Tata Communications Interview (Part 2)

By guest author Tony Scott Evolution from Infrastructure to the Desktop Tony: Shridhar, since you have obviously been with the company for a long time, let me ask you, how did the original piece of the company get started, and how have you evolved from that point to what you are providing today? Shridhar: When

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Alan Rossiter, Vice Chairman, Springboard Capital (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: Those angels, are they all based in and around Jacksonville? Alan: Generally so. I say generally because there are some outliers. We’ve got some people from Savannah, we’ve got some people in Tampa and that area, but generally, in the first two funds that we built

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Entrepreneur Journeys Book Review: Very Pertinent To The Current Economy

From Alan Parekh’s review of Innovation: Need Of The Hour (Entrepreneur Journeys, Volume 4) by Sramana Mitra for Hacked Gadgets: “All you budding entrepreneurs who have a great business idea in your head but think that taking the first step is quite daunting need to give Entrepreneur Journeys Volume 4 a look. Sramana Mitra, who

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The 1M1M Deal Radar 2010: DollarDays, Scottsdale, Arizona

DollarDays International is an online wholesaler that helps small businesses compete against larger enterprises by offering more than 80,000 high-quality goods at closeout and wholesale prices close to those at which large chains purchase the same merchandise.