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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to Scale: Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2015

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. There’s a lot of controversy around whether virtual teams scale. Taso Du Val has scaled a sizeable business using a virtual team. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal entrepreneurial journey.

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Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2015

Sramana Mitra: What year did you leave Summit to do this? Vincent Yang: I left Summit in 2012. I didn’t start the company back then. I actually went to Stanford Business School. I already had the idea. We raised some angel money. It was in Stanford where I started the company. We hired a bunch

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270th Roundtable Recording On July 30, 2015: With Cleverbridge CEO Christian Blume

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2015

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

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Bootstrapping to $300 Million: Faisal Husain, CEO of Synechron (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2015

Sramana Mitra: Where is your team? Is it all in New York? Faisal Husain: We started out of New Jersey. We had a development center in India from day one, because almost all of our clients were interested in leveraging the global delivery model to manage the cost in these projects. To your question about

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August 6 – 271st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2015

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 271st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 6, 2015, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/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 of your questions.

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Roundtable Recap: July 30 – Is Entrepreneurship Only About The Exit?

Posted on Thursday, Jul 30th 2015

During this week’s roundtable, Christian Blume, CEO and co-founder of Cleverbridge was our guest from Germany, offering an European perspective to the question: “Is entrepreneurship only about the exit?” A very interesting discussion. The Social Coin As for the pitches, first up, Ivan Caballero from Barcelona, Spain, pitched The Social Coin, a CSR application that

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Building an AI-Driven Sales Optimization Company: Vincent Yang, CEO of EverString (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 30th 2015

Sramana Mitra: That brings us to 2009? Vincent Yang: That brings us to early 2010. Sramana Mitra: Then what happens next? Vincent Yang: Then, I moved to Palo Alto. When I was in JP Morgan, my main job was to analyze companies. In particular, I developed a mathematical model to analyze public companies. It’s very

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270th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Jul 30th 2015

Today’s 270th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 30, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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