Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the premise of that partnership? Jeremy Young: Windows95.com was owned by Steve Jenkins. He was my partner in Virtual Servers. He pushed traffic from Windows95 to my company. He basically had advertisements for the web hosting product on his website. Sramana Mitra: How big did the company grow to be? Jeremy

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Building a High Growth SaaS Company from Los Angeles: Nick Hedges, CEO of Velocify (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next? Nick Hedges: I joined the company because I was really interested in the data that they were collecting and the flexibility of the platform that they had built. Essentially, they were collecting closed-loop data so these are data from the point that the lead was created to the point that they converted

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Bootstrapping to $27 Million from Arizona: Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga (Part 2)

Jeremy Young: I was teaching HTML at the university at that time. There was a guy in my class, Steve Jenkins, who registered the domain name windows95.com before Microsoft was even thinking about the Internet. If you remember, Windows didn’t even have the web browser in their launch edition of Windows 95. He was building a website

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Thursday, Feb. 18 – 294th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 294th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 18, 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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293rd Roundtable Recording On February 11, 2016

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Building a High Growth SaaS Company from Los Angeles: Nick Hedges, CEO of Velocify (Part 3)

Nick Hedges: The company was founded by Jeff Solomon who was running a software development company in Los Angeles. He had several clients who were in the mortgage industry, and they were asking him for a system that allowed them to be more efficient on how they manage the leads that they were purchasing from companies. He

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Roundtable Recap: February 11 – Plug Your Knowledge Gaps In Methodology ASAP

During this week’s roundtable, we had five entrepreneurs spanning Israel, Italy and India. Bontact First up, Baruch Kogan from Bnei Brak, Israel, pitched Bontact, a live customer support wizard that is designed to power SMB web sites with live chat, WhatsApp, and other messaging app based instant support. My read: SMB owners and CEOs need

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