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Bootstrapping Using Services to $12 Million: Square Root CEO Chris Taylor (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 6th 2016

Sramana Mitra: What year did you start selling products as opposed to just services? Chris Taylor: We started that shift in 2010. The journey was a much longer one that I expected. We were running at our typical parent consulting margins of 20% to 40% depending on the project and the year. We decided that year

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Wowza CEO David Stubenvoll (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Aug 6th 2016

Sramana Mitra: Who were the target audience for this product? David Stubenvoll: We wanted the interest and attention of consumers in order to sell advertising to various financial players. One of our biggest advertisers were mutual fund companies and brokers. Sramana Mitra: How did it ramp? How did you get the consumer base to attract

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Philippe d’Offay, CEO of PMD (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Aug 5th 2016

Sramana Mitra: After you moved to the Bay Area, what were the next major strategic moves? Philippe d’Offay: After moving to the Bay Area, we had a product that physicians were very happy with. We were cash flow positive for four straight years. I talked about almost being bankrupt when we were in Atlanta. The

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $12 Million: Square Root CEO Chris Taylor (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Aug 5th 2016

Sramana Mitra: What year was this when you were the only employee? Chris Taylor: 2006. That’s how it started. For the first couple of years, I did a lot of different projects around the auto industry and also for a lot of startups out in the West Coast. Sramana Mitra: You were consulting at that

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August 18 – 317th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Aug 5th 2016

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 317th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 18, 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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316th Roundtable Recording On August 4, 2016: With Bryce Roberts, OATV and Indie.vc

Posted on Friday, Aug 5th 2016

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

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey: Wowza CEO David Stubenvoll (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Aug 5th 2016

Sramana Mitra: What did Gulp do? David Stubenvoll: We were your very typical startup in that we wandered a little bit. We started out providing mutual fund information on the Internet. It blossomed into creating websites for mutual funds. We actually created a trading platform, and became one of the larger personal finance sites on

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Apple, Google, and Their Offshore Cash Stashes: A Proposal

Posted on Friday, Aug 5th 2016

Apple holds over $180 billion in offshore cash that it has hardly paid any taxes on. If they brought it back to the US, they would owe over $50 billion in taxes. Google has over $40 billion stashed away. Big numbers. Unfair practices. What’s to be done? I have a proposal. Both Apple and Google

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