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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Playbook: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo (Part 3)

SM: How did you fund the AuctionRover.com? Did you bootstrap that as well? SW: We funded ourselves for a long time and eventually raised venture capital to try to sustain marketing as well as to scale faster.

1M/1M: Receivables Financing

My Forbes column today is Financial Instruments To End The Recession. It addresses two key issues that we have been discussing recently: working capital financing and receivables financing. In this discussion, I invite comments from the receivables financing world on how you see the risks and returns of receivables financing. What checks and balances do/should

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Forbes Column 2010: Financial Instruments To End The Recession

This week’s column, Financial Instruments To End The Recession, discusses two financial instruments that banks should offer entrepreneurs.

A Serial Entrepreneur’s Playbook: ChannelAdvisor CEO Scot Wingo (Part 2)

SM: Did you bootstrap Stingray Software? SW: Yes we did. We eventually sold it for $12 million. SM: That’s sizable. Tell me about the journey of building a $12 million company organically in three years. SW: Stingray is when I officially stopped being an engineer and became a CEO.

Roundtable Recap: April 1 – Bootstrapping Tips

I started doing my free Online Strategy Roundtables for entrepreneurs in the fall of 2008. Based on this work, I’ve been able to draw a few conclusions. First, a good percentage of entrepreneurs don’t bother validating their ideas. Another percentage are immediately interested in raising money. Raising money without validating the business is pretty much

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April 1 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, here is the recording:

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