Roundtable Recap: April 11 – India’s Startup Industry Has A Major Gap – Product Marketing

Today’s roundtable focused on India again, and we worked on five startups from various parts of the country. As discussed before, Indian entrepreneurs are trying to make the journey from services and products, and on that road, the biggest roadblock I observe is a lack of product marketing experience. Historically, the industry has been ‘told’

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169th Roundtable Recording On April 11, 2013

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Startup, Survival, Scaling: Kareo CEO Dan Rodrigues (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Dan Rodrigues is the founder and CEO of Kareo. He founded the company in 2004 with a vision of simplifying medical offices with web-based medical billing software. Prior to launching Kareo, Dan started creating technology for the healthcare industry in 2001 as a co-founder and managing

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Trend Spotting: Love and Startups

There was a time in Silicon Valley when VCs did not like the idea of funding couples. Nonetheless, Cisco and 3Com – two legendary Valley startups – were founded by entrepreneur couples. These days, the startup world seems to nurture a lot more romance… Sometimes he is the CEO, sometimes she. Sometimes they switch roles.

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Bootstrapping from Canada: FluidWare Co-CEO Aydin Mirzaee (Part 7)

Sramana: How much money have you raised to get where you are today? Aydin Mirzaee: We have not raised any investment money. From time to time we have applied and won some government grants, but nothing major. We are basically a bootstrapped company. The co-founders did not take money for the first two years, and

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Lars Olrik, Group CEO of Verdande, and Jo Kinsella, CEO of Financial Services of Verdande (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at an entrepreneur working in Houston, for example, there is a strong likelihood that that entrepreneur may have also [gotten involved] in the oil & gas industry, whereas somebody working in San Francisco may not. Lars Olrik: What is interesting to see, if you look at healthcare, for example, is

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