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Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 7)

Posted on Thursday, Mar 30th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Eventually, where did you raise money from? Allan Wille: The Series A lead was from Canada. That was from OMERS. OMERS, of course, has a big history with Hootsuite and Shopify. They know that space very well. Our seed round had both Canadian and US investors. I don’t know if you know Maya

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Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 29th 2017

Sramana Mitra: How many investors did you have and how much money did you raise? Hannu Verkasalo: We raised $2 million. Sramana Mitra: From investors in Finland? Hannu Verkasalo: Yes, we had two investors from Finland and a couple of angels. I put in quite a bit of money. Knowing what I know now and

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Man and Superman: What CAN Be Controlled?

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 29th 2017

In order to give focus to some major changes she sees on the horizon, Sramana Mitra has written several pieces that grew out of her original article, Man and Superman: Human History Bifurcates. The previous article in this series: Man and Superman: Two Distinct Species. Please share your thoughts and help get the conversation going It has

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Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 6)

Posted on Wednesday, Mar 29th 2017

Sramana Mitra: By the time you found your product-market fit, there were other players in the market in the visualization space like Tableau. What did you experience from a competitive challenge point of view? Allan Wille: We actually saw relatively little competition. That’s because we were going after small and midsize companies. Even today, the business

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Serial Entrepreneur From Finland: Verto CEO Hannu Verkasalo (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 28th 2017

Sramana Mitra: The product idea was based on what you were doing for Nokia and what you wanted to bring for the other mobile operators, right? Hannu Verkasalu: Exactly. Sramana Mitra: This is now the post-iPhone era. Hannu Verkasalu: Yes. Now more and more companies were interested in mobile being a medium for content and

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Long Road to Product-Market Fit: Allan Wille, CEO of KlipFolio (Part 5)

Posted on Tuesday, Mar 28th 2017

Sramana Mitra: What did you learn? What were the key levers that you learned to push or look to push at that point? Allan Wille: I think the obvious one was that our revenue was simply not growing. That was the one that was staring us in our face. We did have some successful customers, and

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Thursday, March 30 – 346th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Monday, Mar 27th 2017

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 346th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 30, 2017, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others can register

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Can Solopreneurs Succeed?

Posted on Monday, Mar 27th 2017

There is a myth in the startup eco-system that solopreneurs do not succeed. This is a MYTH. Watch this inspiring 1 minute 6 second video of how Sean Broihier navigated his journey:

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