Catching Up On Readings: SXSW 2016

The 23rd South by Southwest interactive festival was held in Austin, Texas last week. This feature from USA Today looks at some of the most impressive technologies, products, and services. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from Indiana: One Click Ventures Co-Founder Angie Stocklin (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: The mode in which you’ve done this is actually very interesting. I find it quite fascinating. What else is interesting in the story? Angie Stocklin: We tested our hand in drop-ship businesses. Sramana Mitra: That’s a very important point. Angie Stocklin: Even when we were still in our home, we tested drop-ship businesses.

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from Indiana: One Click Ventures Co-Founder Angie Stocklin (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What kind of scale did each of these businesses reach? Are we talking million of dollars in revenue? Angie Stocklin: To be honest, it was hundreds of thousands. A couple of the brands were in the tens of thousands. Anything that was over a million, we kept. Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from Indiana: One Click Ventures Co-Founder Angie Stocklin (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about other businesses. How much did you buy the reading glasses for? How did that ramp? Angie Stocklin: We ended up just buying a domain. It was not a great domain. It was readingglassesshopper.com. It’s a mouthful. I think we purchased it for $2,500. We were able to leverage a

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March 24 – 299th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 299th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 24, 2016, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 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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298th Roundtable Recording On March 17, 2016: With Foundation Capital’s Ashu Garg

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Roundtable Recap: March 17 – Top Tech Trends Driving Startups and Venture Capital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital, who outlined the top trends driving startups and venture capital from his firm’s perspective. The trends are primarily focused on Machine Learning and Marketplaces, including financial marketplaces. Ashu also elaborated on his thoughts on Marketing Technologies, and the areas

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Design for Breakthrough Innovation in Startups

By Guest Author Soren Petersen The opportunities for leveraging design are tremendous when developing breakthrough innovative offerings in new entrepreneurial ventures. Unsaddled with entrenched cultures, organizational architecture, procedures and legacy requirements, design has a “blank slate” to approach opportunities strategically and not just as an exercise in product differentiation. Studies at Stanford show that, for

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