207th Roundtable Recording On February 27, 2014

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Building an American E-commerce Company that Now Sells into China: Peter Mann, CEO of Oransi (Part 4)

Peter Mann: Initially, I started with a couple of factories in China and started with those products to get the business started. These were mostly Chinese developed products that I adjusted and branded. It wasn’t really manufactured from the ground-up by us. Shortly thereafter, I started looking at air purifiers. In its simplest form, it’s

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

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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Bootstrapping a Robust SaaS company from India: Rategain CEO Bhanu Chopra (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Rategain is one of the top global SaaS companies built out of India. This interview captures CEO Bhanu Chopra’s entrepreneurial journey. Sramana: Bhanu, let’s start with the beginning of your story. What kind of circumstances where you raised in? What is the genesis of your entrepreneurial

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Yaacov Cohen, Co-Founder and CEO of Harmon.ie (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk to me a bit about the other different use cases that you’re seeing for the solution you’re offering. You took off through the investment banking use case. Are we talking more of a sales kind of scenario? Do you want people who are in sales situations to have access to

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Building an American E-commerce Company that Now Sells into China: Peter Mann, CEO of Oransi (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happened after Dell? Peter Mann: When I was at Dell, I learned pretty quickly that the culture wasn’t what I was expecting. At the same time, the Internet bubble burst. Dell started going through round after round of layoffs. The morale was low. It was a difficult environment from a cultural perspective.

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Catching Up On Readings: Mobile World Congress

CNN analyzes the key trends from this year’s Mobile World Congress. For this week’s blog posts, click on the paragraph link.

Bootstrapping to $13 Million in 4 Years in Niche E-commerce: Pavel Sokolovsky, CEO of eComfort.com (Part 7)

Sramana: How does the supply chain work in your industry? Where is the margin getting eroded? Pavel Sokolovsky: Here is my version of how the industry came to be. In the 1950s and 1960s, the manufacturers wanted to have national exposure for their products. This required boots on the ground to install and service the

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