Student Entrepreneur to $10M+ in Revenue Without Dropping Out: Course Hero CEO Andrew Grauer (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We love student entrepreneurs who have managed to not only build successful businesses but have done so without dropping out of school. We also love entrepreneurs who have the discipline to get to a strong and sustainable monetization model early on in their evolution. Andrew Grauer

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Ultra-light Startup with $6 Million Revenue: Car Part Kings CEO Michael Dash (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We’re seeing the trend everywhere – companies building significant revenue and market reach with very few employees. Car Part Kings is approaching $10 million in revenue with 14 employees. Of course, WhatsApp’s $19 billion valuation with 32 employees is an extreme example of this trend. Sramana:

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Codero CEO, Emil Sayegh (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: I’ll switch gears a bit. Given all these things that you’re seeing in the market, can you look ahead to the 5 to 10 year horizon. Tell me your thoughts about what’s going to happen. What do you anticipate as new that is going to happen? Emil Sayegh: We are all heading toward

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Karen Francis, CEO of Academix Direct (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Interesting. What are your thoughts about liberal arts colleges? I went to a liberal arts college as well. I went to Smith College. About five years ago, Smith started this big investment on a new engineering building. It was very plush. They invited me to speak at the opening. It was clear that

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Thought leaders in Online Education: Gary Matkin, Dean of Continuing Education, UC Irvine (Part 7)

Sramana: What are some of the other trends occurring in this space now? Gary Matkin: In general, there is a very large gap in the technology that is presently being offered. That gap is conventionally called content management. Publishers are doing more and more to create content that is quite well managed. Learning management systems

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India’s Technology Product Story Gets Major Boost With Autism App Startup Avaz Getting Funded

TechCrunch just broke the story of Chennai, India-based Innovation Labs, maker of autism app Avaz, getting funded by Mumbai Angels and Inventus Capital. The company, led by Ajit Narayanan, has been in the 1M/1M program for the last three years, and has pivoted from being a device and services company to an app venture. Ajit

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The Funding of Avaz: Some Reflections

By Ajit Narayanan, Founder and CEO, Invention Labs I started working with children with autism way back in 2008, building technology that helps them learn language and communication. In retrospect, it was almost serendipity – what started as mainly a favour for some friends has now turned into a full-fledged start-up. And today, I’m thrilled

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Codero CEO, Emil Sayegh (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything substantially different in any other segment of customers that you cater to besides the two use cases we discussed? Emil Sayegh: You have SaaS customers that are similar to the e-commerce value proposition. Sramana Mitra: These are SaaS customers who are themselves public cloud vendors? Emil Sayegh: They are public

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