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Student Entrepreneur to $10M+ Business: Blaine Vess, CEO of StudyMode (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 8th 2014

Sramana Mitra: What was the motivation? If I am a student, why would I want to load up my course notes? Blaine Vess: The main motivation is to get access to other people’s course notes or research. Say you’re writing a research paper on global warming and you have a writer’s block or you’re three

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Bootstrapping a Robust SaaS company from India: Rategain CEO Bhanu Chopra (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 8th 2014

Sramana: What are the techniques that worked really well for you? Bhanu Chopra: The fact that we focused on expanding in an area that we did well in was very important. We expanded our online travel agent business and got a lot of new customers. The other major key was moving into strategic new areas

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Simon Cooper, CIO of ServicePower (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Mar 7th 2014

The field service industry is heavily impacted by cloud computing. Here’s a short conversation with one of the players. Sramana Mitra: Simon, let’s introduce our audience to you as well as to ServicePower. Simon Cooper: My name is Simon Cooper. I’m the CIO of ServicePower. ServicePower has been in the field service management space since

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2014: Saigun Technologies, New Delhi, India

Posted on Friday, Mar 7th 2014

EmpXtrack, the flagship product of Saigun Technologies, is a comprehensive human resource management product that is multi-geography compliant and integrates the entire gamut of activities in a human resources department. Its main value proposition is its unique engineering design that allows multiple compliance engines to co-exist and provide a complete HR automation platform to any

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March 20 – 209th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Mar 7th 2014

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 209th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 20, 2014, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/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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Student Entrepreneur to $10M+ Business: Blaine Vess, CEO of StudyMode (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Mar 7th 2014

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’re seeing a wonderful trend of student entrepreneurs building substantial businesses without dropping out. Blaine Vess is yet another great role model. This story outlines Blaine’s entrepreneurial journey. Sramana Mitra: Blaine, let’s start with introducing our audience to you. Where did you grow up? Where were

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208th Roundtable Recording On March 6, 2014

Posted on Friday, Mar 7th 2014

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

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Bootstrapping a Robust SaaS company from India: Rategain CEO Bhanu Chopra (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Mar 7th 2014

Sramana: What year was it when your OEM partnership went south? Bhanu Chopra: In 2010 and 2011, there were a couple of major products that were contributing significant revenue to us. Our partner bought all of our competitors during that same time-frame, so we had to make some transitions in order to survive, and it

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