Building a New Niche Brand from New Hampshire: Yogibo CEO Eyal Levy (Part 1)

We’ve been covering new niche brands that have successfully been built either purely with e-commerce or with an online-offline combination. Yogibo is a bean bags company that has scaled nicely in its niche. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Catching Up On Readings: MWC 2017

This feature from CNET brings you the highlights of the world’s biggest mobile trade show held at Barcelona last week. This year, the emphasis was more on content rather than hardware. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Executive Director of Academic Innovation at University of Pennsylvania, Bobbi Kurshnan (Part 6)

Bobbi Kurshnan: People who come to an incubator come because they’re going to get money. Hopefully, they’re going to finish the program and their company is going to be further along. Entrepreneurs who are doing something in education come to our program because they want to understand and not just to go out and do

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March 9 – 343rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 343rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 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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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Executive Director of Academic Innovation at University of Pennsylvania, Bobbi Kurshnan (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What have you seen in that program? How many of the people that have gone through that program have actually started EdTech companies? Bobbi Kurshnan: They’re required to build a business plan as their thesis. It’s very interesting. I’ve compared the data from our incubator to our Master’s program. I think of this

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342nd Roundtable Recording On March 2, 2017: With Shaul Weisband, Jifiti.com

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Bootstrapping an Online Mattress Brand to $168 Million: Ricky Joshi and Ron Rudzin, Co-Founders of Saatva Mattress (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: One of the results of this increased competition is that Google keyword pricing goes up significantly. Ricky Joshi: Absolutely. Sramana Mitra: You’re a high-ticket item, so I suppose you have lots of headroom to spend on customer acquisition. Still, everybody in that space does have that kind of headroom, so the bidding war

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Roundtable Recap: March 2 – Slow Growth Businesses Are NOT Fundable

During this week’s roundtable, Shaul Weisband, Co-Founder and CMO of Jifiti, shared his journey with our audience. Shaul talked about the pivot that his company made early on and its impact on the investors. Tecruitr As for the pitches, Nataraj Pinakapani from Chennai, Inida, pitched Tecruitr, an AI-driven resume shortlisting and hiring concept. The AI,

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