Funding Working Capital for Small Businesses: Kabbage CEO Marc Gorlin (Part 3)

Sramana: What did you do after VerticalOne? Marc Gorlin: I went back to the recruiting firm I had, and I also helped a bunch of startups in the interim. I also looked at deals in Atlanta for some investors as well. It was a good time to focus on family and real estate and do

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Nov. 15 – 149th 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 149th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, November 15, 2012, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra, one of Silicon Valley’s top strategists. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of

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Funding Working Capital for Small Businesses: Kabbage CEO Marc Gorlin (Part 2)

Sramana: When you had those initial conversations, what was the consensus on identifying a company-building opportunity? Marc Gorlin: The concept was to take a worldwide known brand, PGP, and turn it into a product that corporations could buy to protect their digitally sensitive information. It was not something that you would normally see done because

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Democratization of Startup Financing: What’s in Store?

In anticipation of the JOBS Act, the democratization of the startup and small business financing industry is heating up. I wrote about CrowdFunding: Trends and Opportunities recently. Most of this is still a hypothesis. Investors have not started writing debt or equity checks to random strangers online yet. They may, they may not. We shall

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Roundtable Recap: November 8 – Never Too Old To Startup

During this week’s roundtable, we worked with four entrepreneurs, two of whom are premium members of the 1M/1M program. One of them, John Lynch, is our oldest member. At 90, John is doing a startup company in the area of innovative story-telling and legacy preservation for seniors. I hope that all of us would have

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Funding Working Capital for Small Businesses: Kabbage CEO Marc Gorlin (Part 1)

Marc Gorlin is the co-founder of Kabbage and a serial entrepreneur. In 1996 he was a co-founder of Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) and oversaw the financing and eventual sell of PGP to Network Associates in 1997. After PGP Marc co-founded VerticalOne, a content personalization service that was sold to S1 Corporation. Marc is also a

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