Bootstrapping From Arizona To 36 Million Dollar Series A Valuation And Silicon Valley Venture Capital: Infusionsoft CEO Clate Mask (Part 3)

Sramana: At that time, there was a lot of activity in CRM. What functionality did existing vendors miss? Clate Mask: Our customers were very small businesses, typically between two and ten employees.They needed e-mail marketing integrated with their customer relationship management. Our software program was as much an e-mail marketing program as it was a

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Jason: For the seed investment, there’s a sliding scale in that the better we think the entrepreneur is, the less validation we need in terms of user traction and business model traction. In other words, for us to back a PowerPoint, we have to think the person

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Doug Menefee, CIO of Schumacher Group (Part 5)

By Sramana Mitra and guest author Shaloo Shalini SM: Interesting! So, you basically leap-frogged the previous generations of on-premise technology and went straight to cloud computing because that is what makes sense right now, that is where the good stuff is in terms of time to market and rapid adoption, right?

1M/1M Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs On Thursday, January 27

Volusion will be co-hosting the next free online strategy roundtable on Thursday, January 27, 2011, starting at: 11 a.m. EST/8 a.m. PST/9:30 p.m. IST. Entrepreneurs who work with Volusion will be given first priority to pitch their businesses, but all are welcome to attend. You can find more details and register here.

January 20 Roundtable Poll Winner

Gagan Biyani’s Udemy was chosen the best business of those presented at yesterday’s roundtable through a poll on our 1M/1M Facebook page. Congratulations! In case you missed it, you can read Sramana Mitra’s roundtable recap here or listen to the recording found here.

Bootstrapping From Arizona To 36 Million Dollar Series A Valuation And Silicon Valley Venture Capital: Infusionsoft CEO Clate Mask (Part 2)

Sramana: What did you do in 1999 when the company you were working for was acquired? What path did you take? Clate Mask: I stayed on board for another couple of years. About.com was the fourth-largest Internet company due to their roll-up of other companies. They were right behind Yahoo!, MSN, and AOL. It was

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Jason Stoffer, Principal at Maveron (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How many entrepreneurs did you actually incubate? Jason: In the past 18 months, we’ve funded two PowerPoint presentations, roughly, where there was a great entrepreneur with an idea, but that was it. That’s a pace we’re comfortable with. We might accelerate. Irina: So, they came in

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Roundtable Recap: January 20 – Personalization Remains An Open Problem

I want to start today’s recap with a prayer for Steve Jobs. I just wrote a post on my blog saying, Apple Doesn’t Need Steve Jobs; Tech Industry Does. It sums up my sadness at the thought of our industry not having the privilege of Steve’s thought process. I have, most certainly, drawn tremendous inspiration

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