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Billion Dollar Unicorns: Strategies From 5 Entrepreneurs
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Roundtable Recap: February 26 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Scott Sandell, NEA
During today’s roundtable, we celebrated both our milestone 250th roundtable, as well as the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Scott Sandell, General Partner, NEA. Among Silicon Valley’s venture firms, NEA holds a special place in my own entrepreneurial journey, being the first VC firm that I successfully raised funding from. Oddly, and
Bootstrapping in Minnesota: Praful Saklani, CEO of Pramata (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: That brings us to what timeframe? Praful Saklani: That brings us to probably mid to late 2007. There’s a second piece that I’d like to add to this. As we were developing this, it wasn’t just about a technology product model that we built. We actually built a whole service and delivery model
Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: It has a gigantic budget. Gaurav Rewari: Right. Stepping along the pillars, if you will, of IT service management to IT asset management, to IT project management, these are the building blocks of something called ERP for IT. They were imagining that into existence in the cloud. I felt that not only were they
250th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M
Today’s 250th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 26, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.
Bootstrapping to $55 Million from Rural Minnesota: Tom Fallenstein, CEO of Fun.com (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Wow! It must have been very scary. How long did it take you to recover that $1 million from that domain? Tom Fallenstein: It paid for itself in nine months. Sramana Mitra: Awesome. Tom Fallenstein: We bought it in January. By the time we made it through October, about 30% to 40% of
Concept-Financing $8.5 Million: Gaurav Rewari, CEO of Numerify (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to? Gaurav Rewari: That brings us to 2012. Sramana Mitra: That was pretty recently. Gaurav Rewari: Yes, but that startup bug I alluded to earlier hadn’t quite left me. It started biting me quite hard again. Our respective product lines at Oracle were doing really well. They
250th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Tomorrow!
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 250th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 26, 2015, 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
