Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 6)

Sramana: What are the functions that you staff for today? Customer support and shipping are obviously key roles. Valerie Holstein: Right now it is mostly customer service associates and outside sales people. We have a reverse approach to business. We are technically 100% e-commerce, but we recognize that in order to leverage our exposure, we

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Thursday, May 10: Opportunity For Entrepreneurs To Pitch At 126th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 126th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, May 10, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India. 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” to

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Chris Ruff, CEO of UIEvolution (Part 1)

UIEvolution is a software development company with offices in the United States and Japan. The company creates software solutions that break through the complexity of connected services by delivering native and HTML5 apps that are managed from a cloud-based platform. UIEvolution’s clients include well-known, elite enterprises like ESPN, Toyota, AT&T, Microsoft, Samsung, Hikari-TV, and many

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 6)

SM: Let me get another piece of clarification here. So, Microsoft is playing this game both at an isolated platform-as-a-service level as well as an integrated platform-as-a-service plus infrastructure-as-a-service, is that correct? PR: That’s correct. SM: Whereas Amazon is just playing infrastructure-as-a-service, Rackspace is playing the infrastructure-as-a-service game, Microsoft Azure, I presume, can be lowered

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Trend: Leveraging Platforms to Bootstrap

Of late, several major tech companies have developed significant platforms upon which entrepreneurs are bootstrapping successful, sustainable businesses. Of course, Microsoft continues to be one of the most successful players in that market. Here is the story of Brian Knight and Pragmatic Works, a $12M a year business that has been built in the SQL

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Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 5)

Sramana: You had massive growth from $200,000  in revenue to $16 million in revenue. What did you do in terms of marketing? Valerie Holstein: Believe it or not, I was not doing any advertising at that time. It was all organic growth and traffic. I could not go fast enough to serve the customer base

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Catching Up On Readings: Don’t Miss Out on Opportunity for 1M/1M Scholarship

As I said before, A&N Media is offering a series of 1M/1M scholarships to entrepreneurs in Britain to stimulate entrepreneurship in the United Kingdom.  Remember only UK entrepreneurs can apply for the A&N Media  scholarships. You can learn more about this wonderful opportunity here. Also, a total of 12 lucky entrepreneurs will receive 1M/1M scholarships from BlueSnap

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 5)

SM: Yes. Your point is well taken that there are definitely some gaps in Google’s offering in Google Apps, but there is also a substantial amount of business going to Google, from what I gather, because of the incredible cost structure that they have created. PR: It’s free, yes, it is free … for the

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