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October 13 – 325th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Oct 7th 2016

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 325th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 13, 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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324th Roundtable Recording On October 6, 2016

Posted on Friday, Oct 7th 2016

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

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Scaling a SaaS Business to 11,000 Customers: Booker.com CEO Josh McCarter (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Oct 7th 2016

Sramana Mitra: What is your conclusion about where you wanted to pin your customer acquisition cost? How does that correlate to your lifetime value for your SaaS business? Josh McCarter: All of the benchmark studies say that you need to be north of three times LTV. That seems to be the number where people feel

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Roundtable Recap: October 6 – Three Continents, Three Marketplaces

Posted on Thursday, Oct 6th 2016

During this week’s roundtable, we worked with three entrepreneurs from three continents. Survifly First up pitching, Dotun Oni from Lagos, Nigeria, pitched Survifly, a crowdsourced market survey platform for collecting data for the African market. It sounds interesting, and I offered Dotun some next steps to move the project forward. SwasthRaho Then, Vaivhav Kumar from

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Mike Ward, Chief Revenue Officer at World First (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 6th 2016

Mike Ward: The ability to land one client at a time is not necessarily as scalable. You have so many people trying to do it. It doesn’t create a unique acquisition channel out there. That one to many is a unique opportunity. There are people out there with API’s who are landing one to many and partnering with

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324th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Oct 6th 2016

Today’s 324th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 6, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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324th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Oct 6th 2016

Today’s 324th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 6, 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 SaaS Business to 11,000 Customers: Booker.com CEO Josh McCarter (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Oct 6th 2016

Sramana Mitra: What happened after you raised the $15 million? How did the business move? What were the strategic moves that you made to get to the next level? Josh McCarter: The major move that we made was, we started investing in sales and marketing. We started building out our team. We took on some larger contracts that,

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