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267th Roundtable Recording On July 9, 2015: Future of Higher Education with edX CEO Anant Agarwal

Posted on Friday, Jul 10th 2015

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

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Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jul 10th 2015

Sramana Mitra: What were the levers for scaling this? What strategy did you take to scale this business? Jason Wells: Strategy number one was to change the business from a professional services business into a software business. There was some back-end technology and some software that was built to help them do these things, but the

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July 16 – 268th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jul 10th 2015

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 268th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 16, 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

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Bootstrap the First Venture, Raise Money for the Second: cVidya CEO Alon Aginsky (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jul 10th 2015

Sramana Mitra: I think your point is also that there are different kinds of employees. There are certain people who are startup type of employees. Alon Aginsky: Right. You have to be very precise about the people you hire. Most of the people that are in cVidya are veterans. Those are the people who join you for

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Roundtable Recap: July 9 – The Future of Higher Education with Anant Agarwal

Posted on Thursday, Jul 9th 2015

During today’s roundtable, we had Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX and my former professor at MIT, as our special guest. The discussion on the future of higher education was wide ranging and comprehensive, complete with startup ideas and analysis of entrepreneurial ventures within education. Definitely worth a look, if the subject interests you. Blackpepper As

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Edifecs CEO Sunny Singh (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 9th 2015

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Sunny has built a very interesting healthcare IT company, overcoming serious challenges. Inspiring story of a bootstrapped success. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Sunny Singh:

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Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 9th 2015

Sramana Mitra: What happens after Sony? Jason Wells: That leads me to where we are today – Convirza and a few other company names in between that process. My brother-in-law Jeremiah Wilson started a company back in 2001 called Contact Point. He was the typical entrepreneur. He just went ahead and did it. He started a professional services

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267th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Jul 9th 2015

Today’s 267th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 9, 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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