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239th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Nov 20th 2014

Today’s 239th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, November 20, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck From Atlanta: Ingenious Med Founder Steve Liu (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Nov 20th 2014

Sramana Mitra: You programmed your PalmPilot to have that available as a mobile application. You presented at this conference and everybody wanted it. Steve Liu: Pretty much, yes. That was when we figured out we might have something. A few months later, we put up a booth. I was a physician. I just wanted to be

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2014: Clickable, San Francisco, CA

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 19th 2014

When the going gets tough, the tough get going. Some technology startup veterans will tell you that when the markets are crashing, it could be a good time to pick up great technologies at rock-bottom prices. SuccessFactors was such a company. It was born out of the dot-com crisis of 2001 when Lars Dalgaard bought

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Building a Global Education SaaS Company From India: WizIQ CEO Harman Singh (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 19th 2014

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Harman Singh has put up a heroic effort to build a global education SaaS company from Chandigarh, India. Now, many years since his journey began, the company has started finding its stride. As the cliché goes, it’s a marathon, not a sprint! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at

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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: Steve Wadsworth, CEO of Tapjoy (Part 6)

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 19th 2014

Steve Wadsworth: There are two reasons why some of the other apps may not get the same level of traction. One is user interest. Games are universal. You get much more user engagement there. Secondly, I think a number of app publishers are leaving money on the table because of the model they’ve chosen. Let

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How To Get Seed Funding From An Accelerator

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 19th 2014

A number of accelerators offer a good chunk of seed funding these days. YCombinator, the best known of the lot, invests $120k in fewer than 100 startups, twice a year. For those ~100 slots, they get over 3000 applications. Companies are required to move to Silicon Valley for three months and YC takes 7% equity.

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck From Atlanta: Ingenious Med Founder Steve Liu (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 19th 2014

We just launched out Bootstrapping With A Paycheck book, the 11th volume in the Entrepreneur Journeys series. Here’s yet another instance of a very successful company being built in this mode. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised, and in what kind

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Building a Healthcare IT Company out of Georgia: Reach Health Founder Grant Kohler (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Nov 18th 2014

Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about how exactly that move played out. Grant Kohler: We started to get some outside requests from clients who wanted to use our system to provide things other than just strokes. Two of the other service lines were based around trauma patients coming into the ER and patients that were possibly

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