Bringing Together Content And Commerce In Men’s Fashion: JackThreads Founder Jason Ross (Part 7)

Sramana: I am a big believer in putting user-generated content on your site, because it captures a huge amount of organic search traffic that you do not have to pay for. What is your current traffic level, and how do you propose to grow your traffic and subsequent business? Jason Ross: We were acquired in

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By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: What about integration you have done so far? Would you share your thoughts on what role integration has played, how expensive it been, and for your future plans, how are you thinking about integration costs and so forth?

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave Whorton, Founder, Tugboat Ventures (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What do you think in terms of returns? Dave: Every company we get involved in, we’d like to believe has the potential to be worth $1 billion someday. The multiple over time is not important to us. What’s important is the scale of the venture and

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By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What are your personal daily challenges? Lewis: Personally, I’d love to help every organization that came through our door, and every single entrepreneur, and be able to provide them with, if not an introduction, at the very least resources of tools and readings they could use

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Bringing Together Content And Commerce In Men’s Fashion: JackThreads Founder Jason Ross (Part 6)

Sramana: What merchandise category is the most active for JackThreads? Jason Ross: There is activity across the board. We have been very successful with t-shirts, pants, denim, accessories and watches.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Paul Stamas, VP of IT, Mohawk Fine Papers (Part 4)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: My other question was, you mentioned that you have moved your transportation management system to cloud. Would you elaborate on that? Is that industry specific? Is it a niche technology? PS: This is an interesting case I think in the light of what I have already

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Dave Whorton, Founder, Tugboat Ventures (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: On average, how many pitches do you receive per month? Dave: From 50 to 75. Irina: And out of those, how many deserve a closer look? Dave: Every year we typically make, per investing partner – there are two of us [another partner is Dafina Toncheva]

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By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Lewis: We are co-investing alongside the existing funds that have been successful in doing this in this space, and we really do rely on them to be the drivers of agreeable terms and knowing what is best for the investment, which ultimately is best for our prospective

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