Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Given that was your observation and that was you interest, how did that manifest in the next startup? Yaron Galai: In 2000, I started a company called Quigo. It was a mix of similar ideas that my co-founder and I had started working on independently. We merged it as one company. The idea

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Lessons Learned: .CLUB CEO Colin Campbell (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You don’t sell directly. You sell through other domain name sellers like GoDaddy? Colin Campbell: That is correct. We’ve gone to all the GoDaddy’s around the world. The largest company in China is Alibaba. They’re the ones with the largest distribution for domain names and websites. We sell through Alibaba in China as

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June 30 – 311th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 311th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 30, 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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310th Roundtable Recording On June 23, 2016: With T.M. Ravi, The Hive

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Roundtable Recap: June 23 – The 3-month Acceleration Model for Startups is Bogus

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was T.M. Ravi, Managing Director and Co-founder, The Hive, a venture studio. The discussion touched upon a couple of key issues: the prevalent incubator/accelerator model of 3-month classes, we agreed, is bogus; and the Future of Work: Utopia or Dystopia? CloudKnots As for the pitches, first up, Prajit Arakkal from

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The Story of a $9M Lifestyle Business: Kean Graham, CEO of MonetizeMore (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: It makes a big difference. At this point, were you still a solopreneur or were other people in the picture? Kean Graham: There were other people in the picture. I hired my parents part-time. I outsourced certain operations to other people. We were looking into certain partnerships at that time. I was getting

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Capitalism in the Age of Free Riders

LinkedIn’s recent sale to Microsoft is yet another case in point that freemium business models are a struggle to scale. LinkedIn offers excellent value to its users. Still, few are willing to pay for that value. Thus, the company faces a slowing growth curve, resulting in the decision to sell. The truth is, on the

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Building a Billion Dollar Unicorn: Outbrain CEO Yaron Galai (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Yaron came with a clear notion of how he wanted to recommend content and monetize those recommendations. It took, however, many years before the market caught up with his vision. It has now. The company is going gangbusters. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning

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