222nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 222nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, July 10, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Cybersecurity Early Stage Investing – Separating the Wheat from the Chaff

By guest author Anik Bose IT Management has become more common as technology plays a larger role in business. At BGV, we have seen a 2X+ growth in Cybersecurity early stage deal. We believe that this deluge is driven by a combination of real facts and hype. A few data points: According to a June

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Bootstrapping a Web Hosting Company to $60 Million: Christopher Aker, CEO of Linode (Part 3)

Sramana: Did you have any market validation of your new hosting business mode? Christopher Aker: I knew that it was going to work. I was very sure of it. Success by my measure then was maybe $100,000 in revenue a year in managed wordpress plans. Sramana: Were you doing all of this out of Nashville?

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happens to Box and Dropbox? Do they get washed-up by Google and Microsoft providing this for free? Vineet Jain: I will not pontificate to say what happens to them but I can share the general trend. Two years back with the cloud-only play, whether you were pitching to the SMB or enterprise,

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Serial Entrepreneur David Steinberg’s Four-Startup Journey (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Today’s entrepreneurial landscape is full of serial entrepreneurs who start really young and build company after company. Some succeed and some fail. David’s four companies have all been successful. Sramana Mitra: David, where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What’s the back story?

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Bootstrapping a Web Hosting Company to $60 Million: Christopher Aker, CEO of Linode (Part 2)

Sramana: What were you doing at HealthStream? Were you part of the early team in any way? Christopher Aker: I was a technical employee and I was able to go through the IPO ride while I was there. We did not make any money there. We were the last tech company to go public just

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: From a user point of view, are you trying to hide that complexity and make it seamless for the user, but the enterprise policy determines whether it’s going to be stored on a public cloud server or a private cloud server. Is that what you’re saying?

Building Unicorn Companies Using a Roll-Up Strategy

We’ve looked at a number of Unicorn companies so far: Tableau, FireEye, RightNow, and Palo Alto Networks. Some have followed the lean startup model, some have raised a lot of money, and hence, have followed more a fat startup strategy. Today, we look at Kayak, that made it to the billion dollar Unicorn Club by using a roll-up strategy. We also

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