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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Joe Speiser, CEO of Little Things (Part 7)

Posted on Sunday, May 24th 2015

Joe Speiser: We spend a lot of time looking at, “How can we engage the user? What kind of content can we show them to keep them interested?” What does that [time spent] look like? Is it one minute, two minutes, or three minutes? What’s that number? Right now, we’re up to 3 minutes and

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd 2015

Sramana Mitra: What was that insight? Josh Manion: No matter what we did with those customers, the amount of value that they were able to realize was this tiny fraction of the potential value of all the different technologies that they would use. You could think of it this way. The vendors of this time

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Entrepreneurship in Utah: Blackrock CEO Andy Gotshalk (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd 2015

Andy Gotshalk: We have good sales skills and we want to make sure we give constant pricing. But if there’s something that I can do to help make that researcher’s life easier, I do a lot of that on the front-end. I call it building collateral – doing things that, at the end of the

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Joe Speiser, CEO of Little Things (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, May 23rd 2015

Sramana Mitra: What is the focus of the content? What is the editorial strategy of Little Things? Joe Speiser: The whole goal for Little Things – and what we’ve stuck with since the beginning – has been uplifting content – the opposite of what the nightly news represents. Our goal was to stop this constant

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, May 22nd 2015

Sramana Mitra: How far did that take you? What were you able to do with that model? Josh Manion: I described that as it was enough to survive but that was about it. That got us to maybe $100,000 in revenue. It wasn’t much. Sramana Mitra: It was you and your wife at that point?

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May 28 – 261st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, May 22nd 2015

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 261st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 28, 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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Entrepreneurship in Utah: Blackrock CEO Andy Gotshalk (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, May 22nd 2015

Sramana Mitra: Why do these people want to join your company instead of doing research? What are you seeing as the driver for getting these people? Andy Gotshalk: I think it’s a personality type. Most PhD’s get their PhD and want to continue in academics and research, but there are people that want to have,

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260th Roundtable Recording On May 21, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Ashish Gupta, Helion Venture Partners

Posted on Friday, May 22nd 2015

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

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