Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 1)

Building businesses has become cheaper by several orders of magnitude. Josh Levy and his team took just over $2 million in angel financing, and has built a profitable business in New York. For those entrepreneurs facing the Series A crunch, this is an important story to follow. You will do fine if you have patient

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you’re trying to do that, are you then saying that you are going out into the social web to pull all that data? For instance, my private bank is Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley doesn’t have any of that information unless they go into my LinkedIn graph. Manish Sood: Even before you go

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Building Significant Revenue with Inbound Marketing from Israel: Pepperi CEO Ofer Yourvexel (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Was there also a visual merchandising element to the segments you were working with? Ofer Yourvexel: Definitely. It’s not just about the product. The brand managers want to control the way their retailers are presenting it. There is an element of making sure that the retailers are complying with the way that they

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Rich Kahn, CEO of eZanga (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What scale are you at now? How big a company are you now? Rich Kahn: There’s about 40 of us in the company. We’ve been in the same building now for probably seven years. Our first building was small. We outgrew it quickly and built a much bigger building. Sramana Mitra: Are you a $10

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What were the circumstances of founding this company? Who was involved besides yourself? What kind of financing did you do? Give me a bit more of the entrepreneur journey in the beginning. Manish Sood: In the early part of 2011, myself and my co-founder sat down and talked about the idea. At that

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Building Significant Revenue with Inbound Marketing from Israel: Pepperi CEO Ofer Yourvexel (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit more about that pivot. What gave you the idea that this pivot is where the opportunity is? Was there any kind of validation that you were able to do? What was the catalyst for that pivot? Ofer Yourvexel: The catalyst was the product that we had already done on the

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