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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Feb 28th 2014

Sramana Mitra: This is something that customers are asking for? Ilya Beyer: No, they’re not asking from us. I have personally observed while talking to customers that they often have no idea what the data is – what kind of data they keep and where. Sramana Mitra: What you’re alluding to is that they’re basically

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March 6 – 208th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Feb 28th 2014

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 208th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 6, 2014, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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Building an American E-commerce Company that Now Sells into China: Peter Mann, CEO of Oransi (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Feb 28th 2014

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Peter Mann started Oransi as a B-to-C e-commerce company. Today, 40% of his $10M revenue comes from China. This is the kind of company America hopes to see more of – selling American products to international consumers. Sramana Mitra: Peter, let’s start with your background. Where

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Bootstrapping to $13 Million in 4 Years in Niche E-commerce: Pavel Sokolovsky, CEO of eComfort.com (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Feb 28th 2014

Sramana: How do you do in terms of sell-through? How much of the inventory that you invest in is able to be liquidated? Pavel Sokolovsky: I would love to say all of it but there have been some decisions that turned out to be less than ideal. Eventually we have been able to sell all

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Roundtable Recap: February 27 – Confidentiality is Overrated

Posted on Thursday, Feb 27th 2014

We had a packed session during this week’s roundtable. Avaz First up, we had Ajit Narayanan, a 1M/1M premium member from Chennai, India, pitching Avaz, an autism app for children. Ajit is chalking out his marketing strategy now that he is in the process of wrapping up his funding round. World Biotechnology Then, Eugene Disnescu

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Momchil Michailov, CEO of Sanbolic (Part 7)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 27th 2014

Sramana Mitra: How big is the company now, revenue wise? Momchil Michailov: We’re at $8 million right now. We’ve been selling the product commercially for just over three years at this point. This quarter we’re moving the product into additional markets. We’re very excited about some product releases that are coming up at the end

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Bradley Kolb, CEO of nScaled (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 27th 2014

Sramana Mitra: The other trend that I have picked up over several conversations is on security. For a while, cloud security was becoming less and less of a concern, which actually increased the adoption of the cloud. We started doing this series called Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series back in 2008. We saw clear

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207th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Feb 27th 2014

Today’s 207th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 27, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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