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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Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 4)

Sramana: How much revenue did you generate from CableOrganizer.com during your first year? Valerie Holstein: I did a little bit under $200,000. Sramana: Wow! That is not bad for a garage, grass roots operation. Valerie Holstein: Every penny that we made was reinvested in purchasing more product for inventory. Whatever was not reinvested in additional

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Pradeep Rathinam, CEO of Aditi Technologies (Part 4)

SM: From what I’m seeing, the CRM and related systems, for instance, is one of the areas where an enterprise buys largely public cloud solutions. Of course, there are other big silos which people are procuring largely from public cloud solutions, talent management and various other management areas, and then there’s a long-tail application development

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Bootstrapping E-Commerce to 16 Million: Valerie Holstein, CEO of Cableorganizer.com (Part 3)

Sramana: In 2002 when you started selling things to hide computer cables, how did people find your website? Was it primarily via your blog? Valerie Holstein: Yes, it was from the blog. I had a couple of pages that explained the issues we had and what products were helpful in hiding the cables. People started

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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: Will Overstreet, CEO of Voices Heard Media (Part 5)

SM: You realize that this is tying, to some extent, into a world that came well before you guys and well before social media as the world where automated customer service based on natural language processing and automated email response systems? WO: Yes. It wasn’t a bad idea. It’s how do you provide a high

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