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Buying Control Back from VCs: Jason Robbins, CEO of ePromos (Part 5)

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 22nd 2015

Sramana Mitra: On the website, you would provide the designs that your suppliers were able to build against. You would provide that catalog and fulfill through that supplier network. Jason Robbins: Exactly right. You would come to my website and you’d say I like that. You would upload your logo. I would send your logo

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Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Dec 22nd 2015

Sramana Mitra: What did American Express do with it? Did they keep the card? Since 2009 on to 2015, what happened in the business? Jason Hogg: American Express actually created Serve, which is their reloadable prepaid product. We were also, at that time, early in the mobile and smartphone game with money transfer and other transaction

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John Chisholm

Posted on Monday, Dec 21st 2015

 John Chisholm, CEO of John Chisholm Ventures, has three decades of experience as entrepreneur, CEO, and investor.

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Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 6)

Posted on Monday, Dec 21st 2015

Sramana Mitra: Chronologically, where are we? What year is this? Jason Hogg: We’re midway through 2007. I’ve done my raise in 2006. In 2007, we had gotten the customer base that I was just describing to you both on the credit card and the peer-to-peer side. We completed a $50 million B round at that

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January 7 – 288th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Monday, Dec 21st 2015

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 288th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 7, 2016, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/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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Buying Control Back from VCs: Jason Robbins, CEO of ePromos (Part 4)

Posted on Monday, Dec 21st 2015

Jason Robbins: Eventually, I took a little bit of what I knew from the promotional products business and a little bit of what I knew from catalogs and the website I wanted to build, and I started ePromos.com. That was a business that was designed to create a website with merchandise and start finding the

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Catching Up On Readings: Top 10 Influencers 2015

Posted on Sunday, Dec 20th 2015

Time Magazine features the Top 10 Influencers on LinkedIn in 2015. The list includes Bill Gates, Richard Branson, and Sramana Mitra. Thank you readers for your support! For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Buying Control Back from VCs: Jason Robbins, CEO of ePromos (Part 3)

Posted on Sunday, Dec 20th 2015

Sramana Mitra: Why did you want to do that? That made no sense to me. Jason Robbins: I know. I just felt that it was tough out there. Real estate is the long-term play. Now, I’m basically chasing a stock I sold. If I stayed at Goldman Sachs and didn’t bother about getting my MBA and

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