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Bootstrapping A 100M+ E-Commerce Company: OpticsPlanet CEO Mark Levitin (Part 1)
Mark Levitin is the CEO and founder of OpticsPlanet, an online supplier and retailer of technical and high-performance gear. OpticsPlanet was founded in 2000 and has since been recognized as a leading online retailer by Inc. Magazine and Internet Retailer Magazine. Mark studied engineering in the Soviet Union, where he worked as a medical engineer
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Thursday, February 16: 116th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 116th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 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. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to
Managing Risk: MetricStream Chairman Gunjan Sinha (Part 7)
Sramana: I am aware of the complexities involved with risk management systems. There have been several instances where I have encountered the issue. It involves a highly specialized area of expertise. How did you build knowledge of the overall risk domain? Gunjan Sinha: That brings up good lesson for entrepreneurs. You need to find a
Managing Risk: MetricStream Chairman Gunjan Sinha (Part 6)
Sramana: What impact did your aggressive marketing campaign have on your company and your marketplace? Gunjan Sinha: The market shifted from being in an early evangelical phase to something that had broad-based adoption. Customers stopped thinking of it as something that was nice to have and started thinking of it as something they had to
Thursday, Feb. 16: 116th FREE Online 1M/1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 116th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable on Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 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. You’ll gain constructive feedback and she’ll answer any of your questions. Others can “attend” to
Managing Risk: MetricStream Chairman Gunjan Sinha (Part 5)
Sramana: What was your rationale behind launching ComplianceOnline.com? Gunjan Sinha: We viewed it as a way to bring the community together. It is a way to distribute best practices for compliance, risk, and governance under one umbrella. We have experts who share what works across different regulations, risk areas, countries, and regions. I wanted to
Catching Up On Readings: Sunday Puzzle
If you haven’t tried a Google a day, you may want to check out these puzzles on a variety of topics while honing your search skills.
Ownership Matters
For those of you rushing to raise venture capital with a deck of slides or a minimum viable product, let me offer you a challenge: How can you get to a $20 million pre-money valuation in Series A, raise $5 million, and keep control of 80% of the equity?
