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In the spring of 2005, I started blogging. During those days, blogs were not as commonplace as they are today. Om Malik, at the time a close friend, and a pioneer in the tech blogging scene, introduced me to the concept. “You are so opinionated, you must blog!” Om declared. Then, he went on to
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Building an SMB SaaS Business: Stitch Labs CEO Brandon Levey (Part 1)
I am quite bullish on SaaS solutions for the SMB market. Here’s one that is doing well. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Brandon Levey: I was born and raised in Michigan. My family has a long history of entrepreneurship—from my
Bootstrapping From Germany: Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume (Part 1)
We’re always impressed by entrepreneurs who manage to build sizeable companies without outside capital. Read how Cleverbridge has maneuvered to $40 million in revenue and doesn’t want to deal with venture capital and private equity. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised?
The Commoditization of Venture Capital
The venture capital market is getting more and more irrational every day. VentureBeat just reported this week that VCs are ‘collecting logos’ of unicorn companies. According to Pitchbook, more than 60 percent of all VC-invested capital went to rounds of more than $25 million in 2014, the highest percentage since the dotcom boom. There were 414 rounds
Long Journey To Realize a Vision: Limeade CEO Henry Albrecht (Part 1)
Entrepreneurship is a marathon, not a sprint, usually! Persistence pays, as Henry’s story beautifully illustrates! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? What is the backstory to the Limeade story? Henry Albrecht: I was born and raised in Seattle, Washington.
Catching Up On Readings: The Hackathon Fast Track
This feature on hackathons from New York Times looks at how hackathons have become commonplace among professional developers, especially in booming tech centers like San Francisco and New York, and have emerged as prime places for networking, job recruiting, entrepreneurial pitching and, in many cases, winning cash. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph
Bootstrapping Using Services From Atlanta: PMG Founders Joe LeCompte and Robert Castles (Part 7)
Joe LeCompte: We are starting to enter a new market in the business process automation where we’re actually going head to head against the BPM players. These are large-scale business management platforms that typically are in the order of seven figure license deals, five to ten person consultant deals for one to two years. What we’re
Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn with Services from Utah: Dave Elkington, CEO of InsideSales.com (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Are you building the whole organization in Utah? Dave Elkington: Yes. Here’s why. I’m maniacal about that. I drive everybody crazy. So much of a business, especially in hyper growth, happens ad hoc. It happens in the hallway. It happens in ad hoc meetings. If you distribute your leadership team, you impair them.
