236th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 236th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 30, 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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What Corporate VCs Need To Do Differently

Corporate venture capital takes many different forms. The most common one is to help the parent company keep its fingers on strategic innovation. Typically, this includes both adjacent revenue opportunities, as well as new business areas, including some that may be disruptive to the company’s core business. My main observation about what corporate venture capital

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Building a Subscription E-Commerce Business from Switzerland: Samy Liechti, CEO of Blacksocks (Part 1)

Samy Liechti has built up a very nice subscription e-commerce business from Switzerland selling socks, underwear, and shorts. The company is 100% bootstrapped. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Samy Liechti: I’m Swiss and grew

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Jacob Cooke, CEO of Web Presence in China (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: That is also the beginning of the rise of more fragmented industries right? Let’s say that these larger brands that are operating on Tmall start to be able to track customers and build a trusted relationship with the consumer. Let’s say the first time the transaction happens on Tmall, the user is starting

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Rick Wilson, President of Miva Merchant (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You were working as Head of North America Sales and the game plan was to orient the product to be sold by the hosting providers. Rick Wilson: That is correct. We were very successful with that. Between 1998 and 2004, which was when we stopped that process, we signed up 3,500 hosting providers.

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Bootstrapping a Credit Card Processing Business: Payscape CEO Adam Bloomston (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting in that 2010 to 2014 growth story? Adam Bloomston: For us, our focus has always been on revenue. We have always been focused on selling something, selling it well, and supporting it well. I think the most interesting thing we have done is, we created Payscape University. It is

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Jacob Cooke, CEO of Web Presence in China (Part 6)

Jacob Cooke: One more thing I should point out is it’s not that you can’t contact those users. Even with those unique identifiers on Tmall, it’s actually the same as their AliWangwang account, which is similar to Skype. You still can contact that user. You just have to work within that ecosystem. You have enough

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Thursday, October 30 – 236th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 236th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 30, 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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