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Building a Healthcare IT Company to $100 Million: Dr. Rob Langdon, Co-Founder of T-System (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, May 21st 2014

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. A technology company that first built a $30 million business selling a paper product? You got to be kidding! No, I am not. Read T-System’s story doing just that! Sramana Mitra: Rob, let’s start with the beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where

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Building a New Online Fashion Brand: Combatant Gentlemen CEO Vishaal Melwani (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, May 21st 2014

Sramana Mitra: The first $700,000 of revenue, did that come from any of these cohorts? Vishaal Melwani: Yes, all these cohorts really converted well for us. We noticed it right away. Word of mouth also became really big for us. One investment banker would get a white shirt and he would then spread that through

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Building a Silicon Valley Style Company from Australia: ROKT CEO Bruce Buchanan (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, May 21st 2014

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. We don’t hear of cutting edge technology ventures out of Australia succeeding in the marketplace. ROKT is a rare gem, and a fascinating story! Sramana: Bruce, where are you from? What kind of background do you come from? Bruce Buchanan: I was born in Sydney. My

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10 Avoidable Mistakes First-Time Entrepreneurs Make Repeatedly

Posted on Tuesday, May 20th 2014

Over 600,000 companies go out of business every year in the US alone. Infant Entrepreneur Mortality is a massive problem. Here are 10 avoidable mistakes first-time entrepreneurs make repeatedly:

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Building a New Online Fashion Brand: Combatant Gentlemen CEO Vishaal Melwani (Part 4)

Posted on Tuesday, May 20th 2014

Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about how you bootstrapped. What were some of the components of that bootstrap phase? Vishaal Melwani: I didn’t know too much about startups. I didn’t know anything about Silicon Valley or raising money. We just knew how to build businesses that were cash flow positive. That was our number one

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Scaling a Fat Startup: MongoDB CEO Max Schireson (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, May 20th 2014

Sramana: It sounds like your thesis is that you want to get adoption and your assumption is that your free customers are eventually going to monetize. Is that correct? Max Schireson: I suspect that most of them will not. That is OK because a lot of them will. The big banks and government agencies pay.

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Thursday, May 22 – 216th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Monday, May 19th 2014

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 216th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 22, 2014, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/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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Building a New Online Fashion Brand: Combatant Gentlemen CEO Vishaal Melwani (Part 3)

Posted on Monday, May 19th 2014

Sramana Mitra: Can we go back to the exact moment when you decided that you were going to do this business? What triggered the idea? What was going on in the industry? What are the dynamics of the founding? Vishaal Melwani: One of the biggest things that struck me was there’s a need for this.

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