Comment-Selling on Facebook: Smocked Auctions Founders Amy Laws and Nicole Brewer (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Advertising on Facebook is complicated. You can spend tons of money getting ‘Likes’ without making any sales. Smocked Auctions is very smart about actually ‘selling’ on Facebook. Much to learn! Sramana: Amy and Nicole, I would like to start by talking a bit about your personal

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 2)

Sean Brown: But they didn’t expect them to go chop down the trees to make the paper. There was an industry and process in which they could participate in ways that were natural to their teaching and natural to their research. I’m saying that from the Internet explosion, there was a period of time where

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck: Axosoft CEO Hamid Shojaee (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: This whole phenomenon of having employees do intrapreneurship is a big trend that we’re looking at a lot. In our incubation program, we do a lot of corporate incubation. We have this Incubator-in-a-Box program that a bunch of corporations are using to layer their own incubation programs. We run, for example, a large

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Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 7)

Sramana: After listening to your story, it really seems like the software model is the best option for scaling the business and that there is a lot of opportunity there. Rod Brown: There is plenty of opportunity in the US as well as opportunities abroad. We are looking at an opportunity in South Africa that

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Sean Brown, SVP of Education, Sonic Foundry (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Video of the classroom is a trend. How is it playing out? Sramana Mitra: Sean, let’s start with a bit of context. Tell us a bit about yourself as well as Sonic Foundry. Sean Brown: I’m the Senior Vice President of Sonic Foundry. I’ve worked for

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Thursday, June 5 – 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 5)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a little bit about competition. This is very standard, right? Going from an on-premise to SaaS subscription model, businesses will always take a hit and then come back to a growth path. That’s very standard process. My next question is more a question on competitive landscape ecosystem. What is your

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Black Entrepreneur in North Carolina Says No Bias: Rod Brown, COO of OnceLogix (Part 6)

Sramana: How big is your SaaS business from a revenue perspective, and how does that compare to your clinical side? Rod Brown: A little north of $2 million dollars a year in recurring revenue. Last year the other side of the business did about $4.5 million dollars. Sramana: Do you anticipate buying more behavioral health

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