Bootstrapping, Pivoting, Gaining Liquidity, Scaling to Over $100 Million: MediaAlpha CEO Steve Yi (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What did you start next? Steve Yi: I next started a travel advertising company. After I left, it took about a year to iterate. I knew I wanted to have my own company again. I iterated on different ideas and different consulting projects. I, finally, got connected with a couple of people who I

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Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Belgium: Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Collibra (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Why did your current VP of Sales join your company? What was it in your company or in what you told him that convinced him to join your company? Felix Van de Maele: I think that’s a really good question. We were very early. We had no revenues. We had no customers. He thought strategically

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Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Belgium: Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Collibra (Part 2)

,Sramana Mitra: How did you go about starting it? Felix Van de Maele: I did my Master’s thesis in data integration, which is a well-known problem. I wrote a one-pager saying what I wanted to do. We wanted to raise a seed round and build the product. We were going to do $50 million in

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Greek Entrepreneurs Invited To 320th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable On September 8th

Greek entrepreneurs are invited to our 320th FREE online 1M/1M mentoring roundtable, on Thursday, September 8, 2016, starting a 6:00 p.m. EEST/8:00 a.m. PDT. 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 answers to any of your

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Bootstrapping, Pivoting, Gaining Liquidity, Scaling to Over $100 Million: MediaAlpha CEO Steve Yi (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Do you want to quickly summarize what you attempted in the last two startups? Steve Yi: My first startup, which was in 2004, was a customizable search toolbar platform that any publisher or website can customize and distribute to their users. The second company was a travel advertising site. It was essentially just

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Entrepreneurs: What You Need to do to Get PR Coverage Without Funding

The entrepreneurship media has a very annoying habit: they tend to only cover funding news and write about funded companies. This puts all those companies that do not have any funding at a grave disadvantage. In many cases, entrepreneurs will need to work their way to become fundable by climbing the rungs of the credibility

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Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Belgium: Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Collibra (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Many entrepreneurs are starting companies elsewhere and then coming to the US to scale. Collibra has scaled to $20 million. Learn how. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what

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Thursday, September 1 – 319th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 319th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 1, 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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