Roundtable Recap: September 7 – Multiple Seed Rounds May Be Needed to Mitigate the Series A Gap

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Stefania Mallett, CEO at ezCater, who raised multiple seed rounds, and then, over a period of a decade, $70 million. Stefania described her journey of building a 2-sided marketplace for catering services that will do a billion dollars in billing soon. Great story of a woman

Read Full Article »

Featured Videos

291st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Caleb Sima, Security Expert

Caleb Sima, a world-class security expert and serial entrepreneur, was working on his security startup, BlueBox Security (acquired by Lookout in 2016), at the time of this discussion. If security is your interest, this is a great session to listen to.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 3)

Daniel Gulati: What’s changed with Amazon is, historically, you used to be able to red-line categories as Amazon-proof. Amazon is an intent-based environment and doesn’t really do well on discovery. They’re not going to get fashion, the inspiration, and emotional connection of buying a $300 dress online. On the grocery front, Amazon doesn’t have a

Read Full Article »

366th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 366th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 7, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

366th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 366th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 7, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping with Services: 2600Hz CEO Patrick Sullivan (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: How much of your leads come from open source customers who have bought your core platform and then you get in and sell them applications? Patrick Sullivan: A lot of our leads come from word of mouth. It woulld usually be an engineer who works at one company and then transfers to another

Read Full Article »

313th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Henry Schuck, DiscoverOrg

Henry Schuck, Co-founder and CEO of DiscoverOrg, is a first-time entrepreneur who has bootstrapped his company to $25 million ARR, and then raised private equity financing from TA Associates. Henry sees a clear path to $100 million. Very inspiring story!

311th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sinclair Schuller, Apprenda

Sinclair Schuller, CEO and Co-Founder of Apprenda, built this enterprise software company with $55 million in financing from Upstate New York. He has raised funding from Silicon Valley, but without moving here. Listen to what he has to say about moving to the Valley.