Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What was the go-to-market? Was it the same? You identified some influencers, sold to influencers, and then leveraged them to sell to the rest of the market, is that right? Jory Lamb: It was a little bit different, but we started that way. We went into an area of influencers. We worked with consulting

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 5)

Robin Wiener: The next phase, which is very exciting, is to push that patient information back into the hospital so that they can get better care. We have an alert system. Let’s say your blood sugar gets out of whack, an alert is sent out to let the doctor know what’s going on with you.

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Roundtable Recap: December 4 – Bootstrapping With A Paycheck With Shomit Ghose, Onset Ventures

During today’s roundtable, as part of the launch event for my new book, Bootstrapping With A Paycheck, we had Shomit Ghose, a veteran startup executive with multiple IPOs under his belt, now a Partner at Onset Ventures, as our guest. Shomit highlighted the fact that last year 70,000 ventures received angel funding, but the number

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December 11 – 241st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 241st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, December 11, 2014, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Ajay Patel, CEO of HighQ (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting that I should have asked you about? Ajay Patel: One thing I think is very important for every SaaS business like ours is profitability. The market is soon going to not accept that a lot of SaaS businesses aren’t profitable. The argument is always that the customer acquisition cost

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240th Roundtable Recording On December 4, 2014: With Shomit Ghose, Onset Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to this roundtable here: You can find the dates and register for upcoming roundtables here. Book: Bootstrapping With A Paycheck.

Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Canada: Jory Lamb, CEO of VistaVu (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me see if we’ve got what you’re trying to say here. You got it off by providing training to farmers in Canada. That was the primary revenue-generating business that went on in the beginning. At some point in that time frame, you were offered to do a custom software development work by

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Robin Wiener, CEO of Get Real Health (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like the business you built is this flexible toolkit with which you can put together health applications. What kind of clients did you go after with that basic concept? Robin Wiener: We’re small and we have some big partners. We do the personal health records. We work with the patient. The

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