Roundtable Recap: February 2 – Why Would You Turn Down a $100M Acquisition Offer?

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Guy Mucklow, President and Co-founder of PCA Predict. Guy has bootstrapped PCA from London to $20 million in 2016 revenue. He has also turned down a $100 million acquisition offer in 2015. Excellent, inspiring discussion. Regrob.com As for pitches, Ashish Kaushik from Noida, India, pitched Regrob.com, an online

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Building a FinTech Company in Brazil: Sergio Furio, CEO of BankFacil (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You were finding people online who were looking for loans and connecting them to financial institutions. Sergio Furio: At that point, it was even broader. We were looking for people looking for financial services in general. We were offering insurance, credit cards, and credit. We were capturing some basic information and doing some

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338th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 338th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 2, 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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Today’s 338th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 2, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Deren Baker, CEO of Jumpshot (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are the emerging trends in the space and where do you see open problems? Deren Baker: The biggest problem that we see out there is basically the one that we’re trying to solve. Most e-commerce companies or anyone who wants to understand their consumers’ online behavior have a very myopic field. They

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Building a FinTech Company in Brazil: Sergio Furio, CEO of BankFacil (Part 1)

Companies are starting to scale in Latin America. In this story, we bring you a FinTech company’s journey from its bootstrapped beginnings to validation, venture financing, and scaling. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Sergio

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Deren Baker, CEO of Jumpshot (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Obviously, there is the keyword analysis capabilities that Google offers that is relatively public. Are you talking about data that is more granular than that? Are you talking about actually following your user through their Google search patterns that are related to Dove? If so, where do you get that data from? Who

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