Mass Customization in Online Fashion E-Commerce: Indochino CEO Kyle Vucko (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s stay in the 2006 to 2007 timeframe. I’m assuming that you’re talking about a period when you hadn’t yet started the business because all of these things had to be in place to launch a custom tailoring shop, right? Kyle Vucko: Right. Sramana Mitra: So you identified one or two tailors in

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Bootstrapping a $175 Million Business with Services: TEOCO CEO Atul Jain (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What timeframe are we talking about when you were $20 million in revenue in this business? Atul Jain: About 2005 to 2006 timeframe. Sramana Mitra: A $20 million dollar business and now you have a competitor that is going belly up and you buy that competitor for cash.

October 23 – 235th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 235th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 23, 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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234th Roundtable Recording On October 16, 2014: With iSPIRT’s Sharad Sharma & NASSCOM’s Ravi Gururaj

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How To Monetize a Q&A Site: Answers.com CEO David Karandish (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: When you were going through this whiteboarding process of what your vision of what the company wants to be when it grows up, what was the financial situation of the company? David Karandish: We were profitable. We were generating revenue. We were small, but we were doing each of those and we realized

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Roundtable Recap: October 16 – Carnival In The Cloud in India with Sharad Sharma and Ravi Gururaj

As part of the launch events for my new book, Carnival In The Cloud, today we turned the focus on the Indian cloud entrepreneurship scene. Two special guests, Ravi Gururaj, Chair of NASSCOM’s product council, and Sharad Sharma, Founder of iSPRIT, each with enormous contributions towards the growth of the Indian software product eco-system, weighed

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Mass Customization in Online Fashion E-Commerce: Indochino CEO Kyle Vucko (Part 1)

Mass customization has been the holy grail of fashion e-commerce for the longest time. Meet Kyle Vucko, CEO of Indochino, a men’s fashion company that has cracked the code. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? Kyle

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Entrepreneurship Does Not Equal Financing

I am terribly irritated by the pervasive and continuously fanned misperception that Entrepreneurship equals Financing. It doesn’t. Entrepreneurship = Customers + Revenues + Profits. Financing is optional. Exit is optional. The media is reinforcing the myth. Business schools are reinforcing the myth. And hence, they’re setting up entrepreneurs for failure.