192nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 192nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 17, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 4)

Sramana: It sounds like your market started to mature by 1991. Arvind Agarwalla: It was getting mature by then. We had started advertising, we had strong word-of-mouth recommendations, and we had a good user base. People recognized us as a software company. Our customers felt we delivered very effective software, and our pricing was extremely

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 3)

Sramana: How did you deal with the piracy situation? It was pretty bad in the 1980s and 1990s. Arvind Agarwalla: The first thing we decided to do was implement copy protection on our software. Of course a lock can be broken, but we had to copy protect it or we would not be able to

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2013: OpsViz, Palo Alto, California

OpsViz provides infrastructure source of truth as a service for technology companies. With its flexible back-end and connectors to commonly used open-source tools, OpsViz ‘snaps in’ the architecture of its customers to ‘collect and clean’ the infrastructure data and analyze it. What sets OpsViz apart is that its founder Gülin Yilmaz managed to validate the

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India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 2)

Sramana: When you first started the company, how did you get the product into the market? How did you build the product and acquire your first customers? Arvind Agarwalla: I set up the company at the end of 1987. My first colleague was a very good friend of mine and remains a close friend to

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Thursday, October 17 – 192nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 192nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 17, 2013, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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191st Roundtable Recording On October 10, 2013

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

India’s Earliest Product Entrepreneur: FACT CEO Arvind Agarwalla (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Arvind Agarwalla is the founder and CEO of FACT Software. Arvind founded FACT after recognizing that in the mid-1990s computers were primarily sold to automate accounting practices, yet they did not have a standard software package to accomplish the accounting functions. Now FACT has been established

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