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Building a FinTech Company in Brazil: Sergio Furio, CEO of BankFacil (Part 5)

Posted on Sunday, Feb 5th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Let’s come to where you are now. Help me understand your business better. What’s happening on the platform? Who’s doing what? How are you getting paid? What do you need in terms of infrastructure to make your model work? Sergio Furio: Today, BankFacil is a secure lending platform. We are a digital lender.

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Scaling an Energy Management Venture: Martin Manniche, CEO of Greenwave Systems (Part 3)

Posted on Sunday, Feb 5th 2017

Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Martin Manniche: 2005. Then the first new thing for me was that I was no more working for myself. I was joining a big company. I worked for Cisco Consumers Group where I eventually became the CTO. That was an interesting journey – coming in as a Senior Director

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Building a FinTech Company in Brazil: Sergio Furio, CEO of BankFacil (Part 4)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 4th 2017

Sergio Furio: We actually ended up doing exactly what we were seeing at that point, but there were too many question marks. We raised money from a couple of seed funds – one from Brazil and another from the Czech Republic. That was 25% of the round. Another 50% was from a set of 8

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Scaling an Energy Management Venture: Martin Manniche, CEO of Greenwave Systems (Part 2)

Posted on Saturday, Feb 4th 2017

Martin Manniche: In a very short period of time, I figured out that I really liked understanding the technology and the software. I picked it off fairly quickly. When I was out delivering these products, every time I would sell them something. I started, together with my brother, a component distribution company for distributing memory,

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Building a FinTech Company in Brazil: Sergio Furio, CEO of BankFacil (Part 3)

Posted on Friday, Feb 3rd 2017

Sramana Mitra: While you were experimenting with lead generation and doing it on a shoestring experimentation mode, what kind of revenue level did you reach with that? Was that something that you used to bootstrap the new idea? Sergio Furio: The reason why we were doing lead generation at that point was that it was

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February 9 – 339th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Feb 3rd 2017

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 339th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 9, 2017, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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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338th Roundtable Recording On February 2, 2017: With Guy Mucklow, PCA Predict

Posted on Friday, Feb 3rd 2017

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

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Scaling an Energy Management Venture: Martin Manniche, CEO of Greenwave Systems (Part 1)

Posted on Friday, Feb 3rd 2017

Martin is a serial entrepreneur with nine startups under his belt. This story traces his journey from Copenhagen to California with a focus on his latest venture Greenwave that has already scaled to over $50 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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