Scaling to $10 Million from Kentucky: Steve Huey, CEO of Capture Higher Ed (Part 5)

Steve Huey: Understanding that this data advantage was the key for us to talk more intelligently to students, we started hammering on that perceived advantage. Very quickly, we expanded the data set that we had so that we could talk more intelligently to them. In the next generation of our product, we created a lot

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Scaling to $10 Million from Kentucky: Steve Huey, CEO of Capture Higher Ed (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How did you acquire these customers? Can you get a bit more granular? Steve Huey: Certainly. We were six co-founders. Two of the co-founders were sales people that had deep relationships with many schools. They simply called their best customers and said, “We have a new company. We’re doing this. We explained our strategy

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Nov. 5 – 283rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 283rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, November 5, 2015, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/9:30 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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Roundtable Recording On Oct. 29, 2015: Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship with Susan Mason, Aligned Partners

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Roundtable Recap: October 29 – Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship with Susan Mason, General Partner, Aligned Ventures

During this week’s roundtable, we started with a conversation with Susan Mason, General Partner of Aligned Ventures, who talked about the dysfunctions of the broader venture capital model, and what her firm is doing to address those. Excellent conversation, please listen to it. RentMyStay As for the pitches, first up, Kiran N. from Bangalore, India,

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Mikko Jarva, CTO of Comptel (Part 3)

Mikko Jarva: There is a prediction that in 2016, the world won’t have enough data storage space to store all the data that is currently being generated. Some of the challenges that we need to think about also is how we manage that data and what do we do with it. Third challenge that we see

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Scaling to $10 Million from Kentucky: Steve Huey, CEO of Capture Higher Ed (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The primary business is, essentially, lead generation for colleges? Is that what you’re saying? Steve Huey: Yes, our primary business is lead generation but for not-for-profit schools. It’s a very important distinction. There are around 3,300 not-for-profit colleges in the United States. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start there. What is the difference between leads for

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282nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 282nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 29, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.