Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Mark Lavelle, CEO of Magento Commerce (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What about the mid-market? Unless you’re an enterprise-scale company where you can afford very expensive software, can you afford to do complex personalization in the mid-market through platforms like Magento? Mark Lavelle: Not today. I think it’s the hardest thing out there. It’s still early for true personalization. We need to get modest

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What strategic moves are worth discussing in your business-building process that people can learn from? What are some of the moves that you’ve made that have really worked or have not worked? What can we learn from that? Rizwan Kassim: One of the most interesting points of a prepaid model is you effectively

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Mark Lavelle, CEO of Magento Commerce (Part 6)

Mark Lavelle: The ability to launch and scale applications today is like electricity in your home. It’s getting cheaper and cheaper everyday. We’re entering an era where developers step back in and run these applications and create great experiences. This is a great era of software coming back. We have SaaS applications on the back end

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Pinpoint for me the strategy for growth. Rizwan Kassim: First was having the right distribution. This is a business that was about distribution. Sramana Mitra: What was the distribution strategy? Rizwan Kassim: These cellphone shops are used to getting screwed by the carriers. Sometimes they don’t get paid commissions. Sometimes they don’t get

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May 25 – 354th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 354th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 25, 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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353rd Roundtable Recording On May 17, 2017: With Heidi Jannenga, WebPT

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let me try to understand this. At the end of the day, the value proposition that you were offering was international calling at affordable rates from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world. Rizwan Kassim: No, it would be their US cellphone service. Instead of using Verizon or AT&T, they would

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Roundtable Recap: May 18 – Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Heidi Jannenga, Co-founder and President at WebPT, yet another scrappy entrepreneur who managed to bootstrap to over $1M ARR and THEN raised the first million in angel funding. Wonderful story! StreakHelmet As for pitches, up first Abhishek Chatrani from Chennai, India, pitched StreakHelmet, a smart helmet company that

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