Thursday, April 23 – 256th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 256th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 23, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/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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255th Roundtable Recording On April 16, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Fred Luddy, Founder of ServiceNow

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: The natural question that comes to my mind based on what you just said is, how do you price? Christian Blume: Our business model is, we take a share of the transaction. If somebody wants to work with us, they only pay for actual performance. There are no upfront setup fees. Nobody has to

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Long Journey To Realize a Vision: Limeade CEO Henry Albrecht (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you finance the alpha and beta phases? Henry Albrecht: The first funding came from my life savings of which I put in every dime. Next came friends, family, and mostly Seattle-based angel investors. In 2008 and 2009, we started to accumulate real customers. We started as a 30-person employer. Then, 100 on

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Roundtable Recap: April 16 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Fred Luddy, Founder of ServiceNow

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Fred Luddy, Founder and Chief Product Officer of ServiceNow, one of the most successful companies in the history of enterprise software. The company, founded in 2003, is valued at over $12 billion in the public market today. It was a truly

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Passion Creates a Bonanza of Breakthrough Innovations

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Passionate, small, inter-dependent project teams can turn on a dime, and by keeping their eyes on the ball, get to bat more often and to impact the world in meaningful ways. Collaborative exploration is now changing how we think about and approach innovation and competition is quickly becoming an outdated

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Building an SMB SaaS Business: Stitch Labs CEO Brandon Levey (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How many of these 300 that you talked to converted into actual customers? Brandon Levey: Maybe one or none. This was more than two years before building the initial product. I came back from Las Vegas completely dumbfounded that this is the way the world was working. I just needed to talk to

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Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Very interesting. How much of this were you able to cobble together as you launched the product? Christian Blume: We launched our first beta on November 11, 2005. We worked together with a company that had a variety of different software solutions ranging from utility down to antivirus products. We were good friends with

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