Roundtable Recap: November 15 – Democratization Of Startup Financing

Before I get into today’s roundtable, I want to point you to a discussion on Democratization of Startup Financing that I suggest you read, given your interest in early stage startups. Here’s an excerpt: In anticipation of the JOBS Act, the democratization of the startup and small business financing industry is heating up. I wrote

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149th Roundtable Recording On November 15, 2012

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Seed Capital Using Crowdfunding: Korstiaan Zandvliet, CEO of Symbid, Amsterdam (Part 1)

Korstiaan Zandvliet holds an MSc in New Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship and has a background in sociology and business administration. He is a frequent writer of blog articles on social media, crowdsourcing and c. After holding a position as marketing manager for a Dutch software company (www.mendix.com), he co-founded a company called Symbid, which aims to

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Bootstrapping a $10M Creative Marketplace: Envato Founder Couple Collis and Cyan Ta’eed (Part 1)

Collis and Cyan Ta’eed are the founders of Envato, an online creative marketplace. They founded Envato together after having ran a freelance design agency together out of Australia. Collis studied math and science while Cyan earned her degree in design. Sramana: Let’s start at the beginning of your personal stories. What leads up to Envato?

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Funding Working Capital for Small Businesses: Kabbage CEO Marc Gorlin (Part 7)

Sramana: In your industry there must be issues around the APIs of various payment infrastructures and data systems. Some are easier to tie into now; for example, you can tie into PayPal via an API and run your algorithms on that data. Is that becoming the standard? Marc Gorlin: It is tremendously helpful to have

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Funding Working Capital for Small Businesses: Kabbage CEO Marc Gorlin (Part 6)

Sramana: What has been the financing structure of your business? Where does the capital come from, and how did you put the pieces together to create this business? Marc Gorlin: It has been different at different times. In many ways it was harder to raise our first $25,000 than it was to raise our last

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