Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Conversocial CEO Joshua March (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What did you find? Joshua March: Many things. Like I said, we took this agile approach where we said, “What’s the simplest and fastest thing that we can do to start testing this out and start learning?” We sat down and built a Facebook page moderation tool. We had all these big brands

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Roundtable Recap: April 2 – Spanning The Globe

During today’s roundtable, we worked with five entrepreneurs from around the world. Project Starfish First up, Subhashish Acharya from Boston, MA, pitched Project Starfish, a social enterprise focused on teaching blind people computer skills, and then engaging them in paid projects, working for small and large companies. It was a fascinating presentation, a noble enterprise,

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Bob Dufour, President of Fusion (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. The insight that is interesting here is the core versus non-core products and optimizing margins selling non-core products while people are shopping on the core. Bob Dufour: One of the things that I would say, as far as my overall position goes, would be if you’re getting into digital marketing and

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Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Conversocial CEO Joshua March (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next in 2009? Joshua March: In 2009, we suddenly find ourselves with this prospering agency. In 2008, I managed to pay off all of my debts and move into my apartment. I never set out to build an agency. I was much more excited by the possibility of building a software

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Bob Dufour, President of Fusion (Part 3)

Bob Dufour: The outcome for the digital distributor is that because of the transparency, their margins are getting compressed severely. A lot of times, people use the analogy of the grocery store. You may be very aware of what you’re paying for certain big-ticket items but when you come to the checkout counter, no one really

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Bootstrapping Using Services from London: Conversocial CEO Joshua March (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What did that mean? You wanted to build products using the Facebook API. Did you have an idea what kind of a product you were going to build? Joshua March: Facebook wasn’t the ruler of the world just yet. Myspace was still big. The consultancy gig that we were doing allowed us to

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