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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Brenda Boehler, CEO of Bellacor (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 10th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Bellacor. What do you do? What kind of customers do you serve? Brenda Boehler: I’m the CEO of Bellacor and Bellacor Pro. We are the experts in an online space that has a passionate following in the lighting and home furnishing space.

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Bootstrapping from the UK to Over $10 Million: Roger Hale, Co-Founder of Linguamatics (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 9th 2017

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to build a product that you could service the pharmaceutical industry with? Roger Hale: The business was formed in 2001, but we started in 2002. We immediately started working on the product. We had some prototypes available within the year. We , in fact, sold our first

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Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 9th 2017

Sramana Mitra: What did this $21 million, which you raised, enable you to do that you couldn’t have done organically? John Pope: Not all of it was direct. We had some secondary in there. Out of respect to the guy who moved on, I won’t say exactly how much. The funding that we used as

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Bootstrapping from the UK to Over $10 Million: Roger Hale, Co-Founder of Linguamatics (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 8th 2017

Sramana Mitra: What year did you start Linguamatics? Roger Hale: In 2001, right after the dot-com bubble. I had always been interested in starting a company. I don’t really like working for other people. The key moment in starting Linguamatics was SRI deciding to wind down and shut down its Cambridge lab. We felt that

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Thursday, August 10 – 363rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 8th 2017

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 363rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, August 10, 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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Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 6)

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 8th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Great. How far does this bring us to? You mentioned that you went up to $25 million with no outside financing. Would these two major strategic approaches cover that 0 to $25 million journey? John Pope: That gets us to $25 million. We’ve always had a broad appeal. Our product works for 99%

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Bootstrapping from the UK to Over $10 Million: Roger Hale, Co-Founder of Linguamatics (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 7th 2017

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Cambridge, England is a great place for high-end technical talent. This story traces the journey of a group of such talented people with core expertise in Natural Language Processing, and how they turned their expertise into a robust, profitable business. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the

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Are You Looking For an Idea to Start Your Own Venture?

Posted on Monday, Aug 7th 2017

Finding an idea to start a new venture is always tricky. Watch this inspiring 2-minute video and learn an age-old methodology of identifying an opportunity:

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