Bootstrapping to $30 Million from Florida: SproutLoud CEO Jared Shusterman (Part 1)

SproutLoud CEO Jared Shusterman shared his wonderful bootstrapping story with me in 2017. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Jared Shusterman: I was born in Miami, Florida. I’m one of the few South Florida natives.

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Building a Two-Sided Marketplace: LawnStarter CRO Ryan Farley (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You were doing Tech Stars in Austin? Ryan Farley: Yes. We were with 10 other companies that were all just incredible. It was something that we hadn’t seen before within entrepreneurial circles. We felt like, “How the heck did we get in?” The program was an awesome experience. Sramana Mitra: What did you

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Pavan Sondur, CEO of Unbxd (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the adoption that you’re seeing amongst online retailers of using technologies like yours? Pavan Sondur: We’re seeing a paradigm shift in the entire e-commerce industry. We are moving away from one generation of search which is an IT infrastructure problem to an AI or machine learning model-based engine which ingests a

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Building a Two-Sided Marketplace: LawnStarter CRO Ryan Farley (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Did you launch it in a particular geography? Ryan Farley: We did it in one county in the Washington DC metro area. Sramana Mitra: Is that where you’re from? Ryan Farley: I’m from close by. Sramana Mitra: That was your local county.

368th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures

Cindy Padnos, Founder and Managing Partner at Illuminate Ventures, discusses a topic that we’ve been highlighting recently: the need for multiple seed rounds as a way to bridge the Series A gap.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Pavan Sondur, CEO of Unbxd (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Walk us through some use cases of what you are able to do. What kind of personalization are you able to achieve? Pavan Sondur: One is pure relevancy. When somebody is searching for a black leather jacket, we want an engine that can understand and tries to emulate an offline sales person. It

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