Building a Fat Startup: Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. One more look at what it takes to build a fat startup. Sunny Gupta discusses Apptio. The company raised a $7 million series A to get started, and then went to raise over $130 million thus far. Sramana Mitra: Sunny, let’s start at the very beginning.

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218th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

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Today’s 218th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, June 5, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Comment-Selling on Facebook: Smocked Auctions Founders Amy Laws and Nicole Brewer (Part 2)

Sramana: At what point in the friendship did the idea of doing a business together start coming into the foreground? Amy Laws: That was in the summer of 2010. We had attended a sample sale. The wholesale showrooms in places like Dallas, New York, and Atlanta purchase sample sets from their manufacturers. That is what

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The names that you’re rattling off – are they more of state schools? I haven’t heard you mention Harvard, MIT, or Stanford. Sean Brown: They are. Quickly speaking, schools that have a business school, medical school, and law school with 20,000 students or more tend to be the kind of schools that are

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Ownership Matters: How To Maximize Valuation

In an earlier Unicorn series article, I profiled Tableau Software, and how the company raised its Series A financing at a pre-money valuation of $20 million. In this piece, we look at RightNow. Series A valuation? $130 million. This piece is an excerpt from my book:Entrepreneur Journeys: Bootstrapping: Weapon Of Mass Reconstruction.

June 5th – 218th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 218th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 5, 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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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Is there anything else that’s worth discussing in your story in terms of strategy and moves that led to big losses or wins? Hamid Shojaee: From an entrepreneurial standpoint, I think that having that focus on a particular market segment is very important and then doing things for that market segment that creates

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