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301st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Apr 7th 2016

Today’s 301st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, April 7, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Scaling a Family E-Commerce Business: Lucky Vitamin CEO Sam Wolf (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Apr 7th 2016

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask you a couple of questions in terms of the process of building this company. In this journey, what are some of the most important strategic moves that you’ve made? Sam Wolf: One of the most important strategic moves is to really understand who our customer is and what’s important to

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Thurs. April 7 – 301st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 6th 2016

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 301st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 7, 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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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Dave O’Flanagan, CEO of Boxever (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 6th 2016

Dave O’Flanagan: The second step is using these different systems and data to be able to infer what the next best action is. That takes into account anywhere between 5 and 20 different features that are configurable by our customer. We believe that most of our customers are more than capable of being able to

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Scaling a Family E-Commerce Business: Lucky Vitamin CEO Sam Wolf (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 6th 2016

Sramana Mitra: Help me understand what kind of ramp you saw from the point where things started finding their stride. What kind of growth have you seen? Sam Wolf: The business has been through an evolution. We’re now 10 years old and our 11th anniversary is coming up. There’s over 200 people involved in the

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From $100k to $1 Million: Tyranny Of The TAM

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 6th 2016

You’ve got customers. You’ve got some level of validation. You’ve got, perhaps, a reasonable degree of product market fit. Now should you charge to the VCs for funding? Wait a minute. There’s a major issue that needs assessment first and foremost. Market Size. What is TAM? Perhaps, the biggest factor in whether a VC funds

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Dave O’Flanagan, CEO of Boxever (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 5th 2016

Sramana Mitra: What are the parameters against which you do the personalization? Dave O’Flanagan: There’s a number of different parts. There are three key things that feed into our algorithm. One is that we build a very deep transactional view or behavioural view of the customers. The interesting thing in travel is that I can

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Scaling a Family E-Commerce Business: Lucky Vitamin CEO Sam Wolf (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 5th 2016

Sam Wolf: I started working three months after I graduated and launched it the in following June. I hired a couple of developers. We worked on putting it together. We launched with 7,000 items mainly vitamins and supplements that I knew were selling well and were good items from my experience in the health food business.

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