Bootstrapping an Ad Tech Company from Paris: Daniel Nathan, CEO of BidMotion (Part 2)

Daniel Nathan: After I studied Finance, I tried working in Finance. I did six months internship as an M&A Consultant in Deloitte. I really hated it. I was going to the restroom four times a day to sleep half an hour. They gave me a contract to work full time. I said, “I think I’m

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312th Roundtable Recording On July 7, 2016: With Sandeep Singhal, Nexus Venture Partners

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Greece Has A New Atlas: Marine Traffic CEO Demitris Memos (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: So the company was registered in London but you were still operating out of Greece? Demitri Memos: Right. Ironically, the decision at that point was to register a company in London for stability and better access to the markets. Next year, my partner will be moving to the UK. He’s leading the sales

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July 14 – 313th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 313th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 14, 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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A Startup Idea for European Entrepreneurs to Create Jobs for European Engineers

Europe is going through tremendous challenges, recently exacerbated by the Brexit mess. I spend a fair bit of time in Europe on a regular basis, and every time I am there, I feel anguished by the malaise that envelops so much of the continent. In theory, Europeans know that they have to get on the

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Roundtable Recap: July 7 – Indian Entrepreneurs Must Pay Attention to Open Source Opportunities

At today’s roundtable, we had Sandeep Singhal, Managing Director, Nexus Venture Partners, a key player in the India-US startup corridor. The discussion spanned trends in SaaS, Open Source, and the Indian venture capital market in general. If you are working in the technology startup sector with an interest in India, this is a discussion worth

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Blackbaud CTO Mary Beth Westmoreland (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about a use case and workflow as it pertains to mobile. Mary Beth Westmoreland: As an arts and cultural organization, I’m like an aquarium. I might want to check people into the aquarium. I may want to have a special event where I’m soliciting major gifts from a subset of

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Bootstrapping an Ad Tech Company from Paris: Daniel Nathan, CEO of BidMotion (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Europe is imploding. Entrepreneurs are its only hope. Daniel Nathan is building a really cool company based in Paris. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Daniel

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