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Bootstrapping to Inc. 500: Tallie CEO Chris Farrell (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Sep 26th 2014

Sramana Mitra: How do you price? Chris Farrell: We price based on activity. For an active user or somebody who uses our expense report system actively in a given month, we charge $9 per month. Sramana Mitra: How big are your deal sizes given the segment that you’re going after is the top end of the QuickBooks customer base? What

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October 2 – 232nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Sep 26th 2014

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 232nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 2, 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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231st Roundtable Recording On September 25, 2014: With Tod Francis, Shasta Ventures

Posted on Friday, Sep 26th 2014

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: You can find the dates and register for upcoming roundtables here. Book: From E-Commerce to Web 3.0

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Building a Successful Social Media Business from Germany: Moviepilot CEO Tobias Bauckhage (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Sep 26th 2014

Sramana: Somebody else made the film and you were distributing it. How did you get someone to let you distribute the film if you had not done that before? Tobias Bauckhage: Nobody knew us so we went to film festivals and watched a lot of films and followed various films to see which ones would get picked

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Roundtable Recap: September 25 – From E-Commerce to Web 3.0 with Tod Francis, Shasta Ventures

Posted on Thursday, Sep 25th 2014

Today’s roundtable started off with a great conversation with Tod Francis of Shasta Ventures. We started with a discussion on the history of retail, all the way from shoe stores, to departmental stores, and back to specialty retail. This was followed by a similar overview of the history of e-commerce ranging from Amazon’s strategy to

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Building a Cloud-Based Property Management Platform, Ric Leutwyler, President of SkyTouch (Part 6)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 25th 2014

Sramana Mitra: What is an average deal size for you? Ric Leutwyler: For independent hotels, which average 80 rooms per hotel, the deal size is $5,000 a year or more. If you’re talking about a Choice hotel as a group, it is around $25 million. It depends on whether we’re selling to independent hotels, small group, or giant

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Bootstrapping to Inc. 500: Tallie CEO Chris Farrell (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 25th 2014

Sramana Mitra: What did you do? then Did you put together some sort of a customer advisory board of people who were prominent leaders in the accounting space? Chris Farrell: You’re right. It wasn’t anything as formal as a product counsel. It was actually a series of relationships. I began cold-calling a number of people in

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231st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Sep 25th 2014

Today’s 231st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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