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343rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Mar 9th 2017

Today’s 343rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 9, 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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Building a New Niche Brand from New Hampshire: Yogibo CEO Eyal Levy (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Mar 9th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Why Japan? Eyal Levy: Through the years and since 2012, people would see our brand if they came to the US and tried it or they’d just read articles online. Some approached us to see if they can start the brand in their own country. With most of them, it just wasn’t the right

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Competing with Giants: Colin Earl, CEO of Agiloft (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 8th 2017

Colin Earl: The next thing that happened was somewhat of a surprise. It was being picked up by very large businesses. I won’t mention by name but it’d suffice to say that one client was one of the world’s largest defense contractors. When a guy representing them called, I asked him what they will be using it

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Building a New Niche Brand from New Hampshire: Yogibo CEO Eyal Levy (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 8th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Now we’re talking 2010. What is the split in the business? How much are you selling through retail? How much are you selling online? Eyal Levy: Back then, the online business was about 20%. Sramana Mitra: What happens in 2011? Eyal Levy: We saw that the model of the store worked. In October of

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Competing with Giants: Colin Earl, CEO of Agiloft (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 7th 2017

Sramana Mitra: You had IBM paying the bills and you were basically hatching a company on the side. You had the time and runway to do that. Colin Earl: As anyone working 40 hours a week. Sramana Mitra: Tell me about what you were doing on the side. Colin Earl: I was working on an

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Building a New Niche Brand from New Hampshire: Yogibo CEO Eyal Levy (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 7th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Is this a product that you are doing under your own brand? Eyal Levy: For the first line, we had to develop the product ourselves. We had to develop a different inner fabric to make it more durable and to comply with the regulations here. It’s our own brand. I started the brand.

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Competing with Giants: Colin Earl, CEO of Agiloft (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Mar 6th 2017

Colin’s company has to compete with Salesforce.com, ServiceNow, and Apttus with a bootstrapped business. Read on to learn how he does so. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Colin Earl: I was born in London

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Can You Bootstrap a Unicorn with Your Paycheck?

Posted on Monday, Mar 6th 2017

Let’s say you have a great idea for a startup and you have the ambition of building a billion dollar company — a Unicorn. Should you immediately quit your job and jump in with both feet? Or should you bootstrap this idea with a paycheck to validation? May be to profitability? Is it even possible

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