Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What does that mean? Are we talking about a regular credit card issued that’s your card? Jason Hogg: It was a Revolution card. We had our own brand and our own network. When you walk into a CVS and you see a MasterCard, Visa, and AmEx sticker in the window, you would also

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Buying Control Back from VCs: Jason Robbins, CEO of ePromos (Part 2)

Jason Robbins: Frankly, I didn’t like my job. It was very clerical. I wanted to do more higher-end things that required me to think. More than one time, I was told, “You’re paid to do and not think.” I really wanted to improve my job and improve the organization. When they’re making $20 million a

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Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What year did you do the $10 million first round financing? Jason Hogg: It was a year later. We did the $10 million financing in May of 2006. I had this idea in my head when I made that connection that I told you about all the way back in 2001. It was

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287th Roundtable Recording On Dec. 17, 2015: With Engineering Capital Founder Ashmeet Sidana

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Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: At that point, what did you tell them? What were you going to deliver for them? Jason Hogg: I was going to build them the first non-proprietary credit card network in America that would simultaneously have peer-to-peer transfer capability which only PayPal had at that time. I could build a proof of concept to

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Buying Control Back from VCs: Jason Robbins, CEO of ePromos (Part 1)

Jason raised both angel round and a VC round early on, but eventually, the company turned out to be a good, solid, profitable business, but not the kind of rocket VCs like to fund. Read how he negotiated with them to gain control of the venture. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of

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Roundtable Recap: December 17 – Focus on Proteins and Whole Wheat Bread, Skip Candies

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest, Ashmeet Sidana, Founder of Engineering Capital, a seed-stage venture fund focusing on infrastructure technology. Ashmeet had a lot of insights to offer, and delivered one particular piece of wisdom that is close to my heart. He says, funding is like candy. Don’t eat too much candy.

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Innovating in Fintech: Jason Hogg, CEO of Lending.com (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to now? Jason Hogg: We’re now in 2002. The timing was actually interesting because when I was graduating from Cornell, the first dot-com  bomb had gone off. There were a series of venture capital and private equity shops that had made co-investments in a number of

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