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Roundtable Recap: March 17 – Top Tech Trends Driving Startups and Venture Capital

Posted on Friday, Mar 18th 2016

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital, who outlined the top trends driving startups and venture capital from his firm’s perspective. The trends are primarily focused on Machine Learning and Marketplaces, including financial marketplaces. Ashu also elaborated on his thoughts on Marketing Technologies, and the areas

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Design for Breakthrough Innovation in Startups

Posted on Thursday, Mar 17th 2016

By Guest Author Soren Petersen The opportunities for leveraging design are tremendous when developing breakthrough innovative offerings in new entrepreneurial ventures. Unsaddled with entrenched cultures, organizational architecture, procedures and legacy requirements, design has a “blank slate” to approach opportunities strategically and not just as an exercise in product differentiation. Studies at Stanford show that, for

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from Indiana: One Click Ventures Co-Founder Angie Stocklin (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Mar 17th 2016

Sramana Mitra: Sunglasses is a fairly big category on the Internet. How did you compete with the existing larger players? Angie Stocklin: We were a discount brand. There were several brands that were similar to ours at that time. We were targeting customers who wanted something that was not branded and between $15 and $20.

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298th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Mar 17th 2016

Today’s 298th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, March 17, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

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298th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Mar 17th 2016

Today’s 298th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 17, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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What Happens After the Unicorn Carnage

Posted on Thursday, Mar 17th 2016

Predictably, the technology industry is going through an adjustment. Many public stocks in hot sectors like cloud computing have crashed. Overvalued Unicorns are experiencing down rounds, layoffs, and all the other unsavory stuff that they deserve. More Unicorns will turn into Unicorpses as the correction continues. You could say that the industry is in bad

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from Indiana: One Click Ventures Co-Founder Angie Stocklin (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 16th 2016

Sramana Mitra: Somebody else is sending these letters from Indiana and you were an affiliate partner of that particular business. Angie Stocklin: Correct. Sramana Mitra: You were generating traffic in your website and monetizing those letters in that affiliate model from that original business? Angie Stocklin: Yes. Sramana Mitra: How much did he charge for

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Bootstrapping with a Paycheck from Indiana: One Click Ventures Co-Founder Angie Stocklin (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 15th 2016

Sramana Mitra: This is actually an interesting point because we often see entrepreneurs trying to start affiliate marketing as a side business. Did you both quit your jobs and start it full-time or did you still hold on to your prior jobs? Angie Stocklin: We kept our jobs for several years. We were toying around

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