Roundtable Recap: January 9 – Startup Mentoring Takes Patience

Of course, today’s roundtable is a major milestone in the history of 1M/1M. It reminds me of our baby-steps and experiments early on in 2008, long before 1M/1M came into being. There is always a bit of poignancy in celebrating such milestones. You can read our synthesis: Mentoring Startups: 10 Lessons We Have Learned. All

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Jim Donohue, Chief Product Officer, Cengage Learning (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: I was going to conclude the interview with a question about the approach of the professors. You started off by saying that it’s a non-digital native class that is teaching the courses and they are somewhat resistant to change. They are not as familiar with technology as their students are and so on

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Bootstrapping an App to $10 Million in Revenue: Christophe Bach, CEO of TextMe (Part 7)

Sramana: Can you talk, Christophe, about what has been your strategy in terms of building the team? You started with four co-founders and sounds like Julien came on board about a year later. Who else is on the team now, how big is the team and what has been your philosophy in building the team

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Today’s 200th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, January 9, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 2)

Sramana: Why would the National Stock Exchange commission ask you to build a mission critical transaction system? Did you have credentials to gain their confidence? Manish Sharma: They were not our first customer. We were able to build a good portfolio before we started working on those high profile projects. Our first customer was Indian

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Jim Donohue, Chief Product Officer, Cengage Learning (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s shift the discussion to Business education. In particular, the area that is of most interest to our audience is Entrepreneurship education. There’s been a huge surge of interest in Entrepreneurship Education around the world. What are you seeing? What are you doing? Jim Donohue: Good news, bad news. Entrepreneurship education at the

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Bootstrapping an App to $10 Million in Revenue: Christophe Bach, CEO of TextMe (Part 6)

Sramana: Talk about the execution side. You mentioned that the ad networks were not really setup to work with a telecom company in this mode. So which ad network were you able to work with to get this model going? Julien: Christophe, you want to take that one? Christophe: Yeah. I would not say that

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