Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Mark Lavelle, CEO of Magento Commerce (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Clearly, there has been a massive explosion of niche e-commerce. Platforms like Magento as well as a few others that we have covered extensively have played a big role in enabling these companies and built very substantial e-commerce companies. One of my observations is that the bar is going up in terms of

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Thursday, May 18 – 353rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 353rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 18, 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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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In 2006 you finally graduated. What happened after that? Rizwan Kassim: I worked at a couple of companies. I did some technology consulting. I worked at a restaurant startup that was started by Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari. I was the Director of Engineering there. I was there for a few years.

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352nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ron Heinz, Signal Peak Ventures

Ron Heinz, Founder and Managing Director at Signal Peak Ventures, a venture firm operating mostly in the Rocky Mountain corridor, discusses what’s happening in Utah, as well as Colorado and Arizona. We’ve covered a number of companies from that area including Pluralsight, InsideSales, Steals.com, Ping Identity, and InfusionSoft. Today there are over a thousand funded startups in those geographies. Bootstrapping runs heavy in the startup culture of the region.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Mark Lavelle, CEO of Magento Commerce (Part 1)

This is a comprehensive discussion on the current state of the union in e-commerce with the CEO of one of the most popular platforms on which thousands of e-commerce sites are built. The outlook is somewhat scary with Amazon dominating at an alarming scale. But democratization is also on the horizon. Very interesting conversation, and

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Can You Enhance Your Negotiating Power in Fundraising?

Can you enhance your negotiating power in fundraising? Most certainly you can. Watch this inspiring 1 minute 14 seconds video and learn how:

Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  I have long believed that Go BIG or Go HOME is complete bullshit. I have seen entrepreneur after entrepreneur build a small but profitable, slower growth business as a first outing, followed by a much larger, higher growth business as a follow-on venture. Rizwan has done

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Catching Up On Readings: Ransomware Attack

This feature from The New York Times looks at the aftershock of the large-scale ransomware attack that seized thousands of computer systems last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.