Bootstrapping to $40 Million: iCIMS CEO Colin Day (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Colin Day is the founder, CEO and president of iCIMS, a SaaS provider of HR solutions. Prior to founding iCIMS, Colin worked in sales and new business development at Comrise Technology, an IT staffing firm. After successfully opening a new branch office in Washington D.C., Colin

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Thursday, January 17: 2nd New Year Challenge Finals

Join us as the remaining 10 finalists for the 1M/1M New Year Challenge pitch their businesses to win scholarships to the 1M/1M online mentoring program on Thursday, January 17, 2013, starting at 8 a.m. PST. You can register to attend here, it’s free. We hope to you can join us!

Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Stew Langille, CEO of Visual.ly (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: According to you, you are operating at the very end of the big data spectrum. There are infrastructure players that provide the infrastructure for big data to be processed and researched. Then there are the applications that provide the domain knowledge and the logic based on such data. You provide the presentation layer

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Martin Smith, SVP, Ad Platforms and General Manager, TruEffect (Part 1)

Martin Smith is senior vice president of ad platforms and general manager of advertising technology company TruEffect. Martin has more than 29 years of technology experience in the U.S. and the U.K., having worked for Apple and for hardware and software provider Zones. In this interview Martin talks about how TruEffect uses big data to

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Series A Crunch: Obsession With Exit

Do you know the difference between a business model and an exit strategy? Are you building a business that has a real, viable business model? Or are you trying to do an Instagram?

1Mby1M Deal Radar 2013: Listar, Miami, Florida

Search and shopping are two universal online activities. As the process typically goes, a user will pull up a search engine with a purchase already in mind, looking for a place to buy it. But when Simon Vielma was approached by a girlfriend for help finding a pair of shoes she’d seen on a friend’s Facebook,

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Building a Made-in-India ERP Product Company: Ramco CEO Virender Aggarwal (Part 7)

Sramana: What are your key product differentiators? Virender Aggarwal: Our unique differentiators center on our complete mobile coverage capability. We can run on iPad and Android tablets with a mix of native apps and HTML5. We also have a great graphical user interface. Our system is geographically aware, and it does not ask the end

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Series A Crunch: Tyranny of the TAM

What is TAM? Perhaps, the biggest factor in whether a VC funds you or not. TAM = Total Available Market. Note: Top Down TAM doesn’t matter. You need to present a Bottom-Up TAM Analysis. And to get funded, that TAM needs to be very large. Billion. Two billion. Ten billion.