319th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 319th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 1, 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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Startup Ideas Combining Italian Design and Indian Craftsmanship in Fashion

If you’ve read Vision India 2020, you may recall a project called Urja. In it, I explored the idea of creating a fusion brand with Italian designers working with Indian artisans and craftsmen specializing in different domains such as Chikkan from Lucknow, Tasar from Bengal, etc. This project, like all the Vision India 2020 projects, was designed to be

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Building a Global Enterprise Software Company from Belgium: Felix Van de Maele, CEO of Collibra (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What could you do that IBM couldn’t do? Felix Van de Maele: That goes back to the original story. The authenticity there is in focusing on business people. We always focus on business people. The product is very easy to use, collaborative, and social. We adopted some concepts from Wiki. The user interface

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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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