Building a Marketing Software Company from Utah: Convirza CEO Jason Wells (Part 1)

We’ve covered several stories of tech startups in Utah. Convirza is yet another interesting company from the mini tech hub. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jason Wells: I was born and raised in Fresno,

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Thursday, July 9 – 267th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 267th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 9, 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 1)

As a variation on our ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’ theme, we also see many entrepreneurs who have bootstrapped a first company (or business), and then gone onto venture-fund a second. Christian Chabot built Tableau Software in this mode. Sridhar Vembu built Zoho. We have numerous examples of this tried and true path. Something to

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Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m interested in more granular information. Josh Levy: I think TV is a great example. In 2007 to 2010, television was cheap. The market and the economy were down. It was a great time for us to step in and grow the brand through television. At that time, we had been trying Facebook

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Catching Up On Readings: Tech Eating Jobs?

As all industries embrace technology, this TechCrunch article looks at the various scenarios for potential implications on jobs and employment. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Why did you raise money? What was the thinking behind raising money? Manish Sood: The thinking behind raising money was that we had validated the opportunity and had substantial revenue was being generated, how do we accelerate? We are still dealing with enterprise customers. Some of these sales cycles can be long. At the

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Building Significant Revenue with Inbound Marketing from Israel: Pepperi CEO Ofer Yourvexel (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: You have a lot of customers. You said you have customers in 50 countries. Does that mean that you also have customers in accounts that could become much larger because you already had started penetrating these accounts? You have small footprints in those accounts that can be grown to much larger value accounts.

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Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the use cases? What are the drivers to want to subscribe to something like this? In my life, for instance, if I need to check somebody out, I go to LinkedIn and look at their profiles. Josh Levy: If I have to pick the hardest problem for BeenVerified, it’s that we

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