Successful Pivot to $5M in Revenue from Chicago: Cohesive Networks CEO Patrick Kerpan (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me understand a couple of things. You talked a bit about Boards and about lightly capitalized company. Can you explain to me what the capitalization of the company is?  Patrick Kerpan: The corporation is Cohesive Flexible Technologies Corporation. It’s a C-Corp. It owns two limited liability companies. One has all the image

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262nd Roundtable Recording On June 4, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns With Druva Founder Jaspreet Singh

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Serial Bootstrapper: Oversee and Manage Founder Fred Hsu (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In 2009, you were out. What did you do next? Fred Hsu: I moved out of LA. I married and had two kids. I raised them for a couple of years and got the entrepreneur itch again. Then in about 2010, I met up with an old college friend called Kai. He was

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June 11 – 263rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 263rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 11, 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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Successful Pivot to $5M in Revenue from Chicago: Cohesive Networks CEO Patrick Kerpan (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What year did you quit Borland? Patrick Kerpan: It was sometime in early 2006. I was going to do an excellent year off. After about two weeks of me reorganizing household processes, my wife said, “You’ve got to get an office outside of the house because you’re driving us all crazy.” The co-founder of

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Roundtable Recap: June 4 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Druva Founder Jaspreet Singh

During this week’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Jaspreet Singh, Founder and CEO of Druva, India’s flagship global product success story. Druva is not quite a unicorn company yet, but definitely a contender. Macpillar Technologies As for the pitches, first up, Sanjeev Sharma from Noida, India, pitched Macpillar

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Serial Bootstrapper: Oversee and Manage Founder Fred Hsu (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How many people did you need to make this equation work? Fred Hsu: We had a peak of about 225 employees across three or four locations. Sramana Mitra: What function required a lot of people? At some level, it sounds like if you’re doing all this by technology, it’s not probably that people-intensive

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262nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 262nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 4, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.