A VC-Funded Entrepreneur Makes More Money Than a Bootstrapped One. Right or Wrong?

A VC-funded entrepreneur makes more money than a bootstrapped one. Right or wrong? Read this comic strip to check whether your answer is right or wrong.

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Building a Fast-growth SaaS HR Technology Company: Justworks CEO Isaac Oates (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Justworks is a fast-growth VC-funded startup in New York in the Human Capital Management space, catering to small businesses. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: John Price, CEO of Vast (Part 4)

John Price: The other thing we do with the image is, we can determine what’s the make and model of that car just from the image. From there, we can generate all of our analytics about that car. Now you can just take a picture of a car and we can generate a CarStory report

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Catching Up On Readings: Big Data Top 25

This report from Datamation profiles the top 25 Big Data companies. The list includes not just the giants but also lesser known Big Data startups like Striim, Alteryx, Pentaho, and Mu Sigma. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: John Price, CEO of Vast (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I have a couple of questions. Tell me how you go to market. You mentioned, in passing, that your customers have dealer networks. Explain to me what is the usage model of your product and who’s buying, who’s using, and how. John Price: Given that it’s a stack, we have users at every

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An Animal Lover’s Beautiful Journey: Elephant Pants CEO Nathan Coleman (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Was the value proposition that you were going to contribute a portion of this to the cause of saving elephants? Nathan Coleman: Exactly. That was the mission from day one. We sell these pants but we also contribute a portion of every sale to different elephant organizations. That’s how we ended up getting

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: John Price, CEO of Vast (Part 2)

John Price: Back to your question, there were no platforms out there to do this with. We had to start with the raw tools that were out there. Then we had to start with the data and focus on our core industry—automotive. The data is a mess. It’s all over the place. It’s very hard

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An Animal Lover’s Beautiful Journey: Elephant Pants CEO Nathan Coleman (Part 2)

Nathan Coleman: We reached out to different elephant organizations, one of which was the African Wildlife Foundation. We wanted to find a way to help these elephants. I don’t think they thought we could do much about it. When we sent them a check for $1,500, that’s when we they realized we were serious. Our

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