Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Where there is something wrong is this crazy glamorization of unicorns and fundraising. That is really unhealthy and it is really destroying the entrepreneurship ecosystem. John Pope: I completely agree. In closing on that, what I didn’t want to do was have a business and then stop working hard. Maybe this will resonate

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10 Entrepreneurs Who Bootstrapped to Millions in Podcasts

If you have been putting off moving forward with your own startup venture due to a lack of financing, please listen to this series of podcast interviews with some successful startup founders who managed to bootstrap their businesses to millions in revenue. Each of these 30-minute podcast interviews tells the inspiring story of how they

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Gurjeet Singh, Co-Founder and Chairman of Ayasdi (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Do you want to talk about the healthcare use case a bit? Gurjeet Singh: Similar to financial services, we build applications that solve problems end-to-end. The first application in healthcare that we sell to both healthcare payers and providers is the application that detects and hopes to mitigate the problem of clinical radiation.

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362nd Roundtable Recording On August 3, 2017: Economic Development Discussion

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Roundtable Recap: August 3 – Economic Development

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ken Anderson, Director of Entrepreneurial and Small Business Support, Division of Small Business, Development and Tourism, Delaware Department of State. Ken discussed the partnership between 1Mby1M and his agency. Throughout the roundtable, we had discussions on economic development strategies for government agencies. Spexciton Biosciences As for

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Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Unless you go to an elite school or are plugged into an environment, you don’t really have access. With what we do, everybody has access anywhere in the world. Give us an anchor point from a chronology point of view. John Pope: I started those two businesses in 2004 and 2006 right after

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Gurjeet Singh, Co-Founder and Chairman of Ayasdi (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: By rolling out your software in a risk operation that has such large numbers of manual labor, how many people can you replace with the software? Gurjeet Singh: At this point, the banks are not talking about replacing people. They’re worried about capturing risk. They are more interested in making sure that they

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362nd Roundtable – Economic Development For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 362nd FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, August 3, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!