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Today’s FREE online 123rd 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, April 19, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Rolling Up Bill Management: Flint Lane, CEO of BillTrust (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Flint Lane is a serial entrepreneur and the founder and CEO of Billtrust, a company offering B2C and B2B billing services. Billtrust has earned numerous awards from business organizations, including the Deloitte Technology Fast 500 and Inc. 500. Prior to founding Billtrust, he was the founder

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Outsourcing: Brad Heath, CEO of VirTex Assembly Services (Part 2)

SM: What are the repercussions of that? BH: Well, we go ahead and work with our supply chain in the same manner, to minimize our risk and our liability. So, we’re not taking any risks that our customers aren’t taking, but we’re working with our supply chain to minimize that risk for our customers. There are

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Thursday, April 19: Opportunity For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 123rd FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 123rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, April 19, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend”

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Freemium, Conversion Rates and More: AVG CEO J.R. Smith (Part 7)

Sramana: Where do you see AVG going from here? J.R. Smith: Moving forward, we have to figure out how to increase monetization of our users without charging them a dime. Our mantra is to ensure everyone is protected, paid user or free users. The more we move toward indirect monetization, the more we will be

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1M/1M Video: Virtual Incubator + Physical Incubator

This may sound counter-intuitive, but we’re discussing entrepreneurship development strategies for various countries, and we feel that the only way to build a pipeline of entrepreneurs in short-order is by combining virtual incubation with physical incubation. There are 7500 physical incubators around the world today. Most of them are failing. Why? We have moderated many

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Outsourcing: Brad Heath, CEO of VirTex Assembly Services (Part 1)

We often talk about how much technology has done to make our lives easier and our workflows faster. When we do, we aren’t usually thinking about the ways that Austin, Texas–based VirTex uses technology to make their customers’ lives easier. From RFID tags to medical training equipment to solar power monitoring, VirTex manufactures all kinds

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Freemium, Conversion Rates and More: AVG CEO J.R. Smith (Part 6)

Sramana: What does the competitive landscape look like for you? J.R. Smith: Competition is pretty vast for us. By giving away our products and figuring out how to cross-sell and upsell, we have grown our customer base to 106 million active users. When you get 100 million users, that changes the business model. We are

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