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292nd Roundtable Recording On Feb. 4, 2016: With Raj De Datta, CEO of BloomReach

Posted on Friday, Feb 5th 2016

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

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Roundtable Recap: February 4 – Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later with Raj De Datta, CEO of BloomReach

Posted on Friday, Feb 5th 2016

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Raj De Datta, co-founder and CEO of e-commerce personalization technology firm, BloomReach. The company bootstrapped to over $5M in revenue before raising its first financing from Sequoia. Today, it is well on its way to become a publicly traded company in a couple of years. Raj

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Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Feb 5th 2016

David Braun: The next challenge was when the customer acquisition cost was starting to double every year. Since we were now working with the platforms, there were a few challenges to initiate the major change in the release. In a year, we were producing 3,000 to 4,000 products. We had to make a decision on whether

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Using Services from The Netherlands: Pierre and Fred Guelen, Planon Software (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 4th 2016

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Pierre and Fred Guelen have bootstrapped a very significant company from The Netherlands using the bootstrapping using services principle. Read on and learn how. Sramana Mitra: We’re going to start at the very beginning of your personal journeys. One of you please start by telling us

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292nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Feb 4th 2016

Today’s 292nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 4, 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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292nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Feb 4th 2016

Today’s 292nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 4, 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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Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 4th 2016

David Braun: Then the new threat to the business came into the scene. A lot of web designers started to fear that TemplateMonster will kill the custom web design market. They were saying, “You don’t have to use the template because it’s a bad practice. You’d better order the custom design service.” This was how

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Building an Artificial Intelligence Software Company from Dallas: Dave Copps, CEO of Brainspace (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 3rd 2016

Sramana Mitra: I wanted to ask you about location and where you’re building your team. Where is the bulk of the organisation? Dave Copps: We’re in Dallas, Texas. Sramana Mitra: Everything is in Dallas, Texas? Dave Copps: We do have satellite offices. We have people in San Francisco, DC, New York, and London. Sramana Mitra:

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