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Unicorn Startup Founders Discuss How They Did It In Podcasts

Posted on Friday, Dec 15th 2017

We have been watching the Unicorn phenomena very closely over the past few years, as you can see in my series Billion Dollar Unicorns and From Unicorn To Unicorpse. Entrepreneurs looking for some genuine inspiration and advice from startup founders who have built their businesses up to Unicorn levels should have a listen to the

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377th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Anirudh Suri, India Internet Fund

Posted on Friday, Dec 15th 2017

Anirudh Suri, Founding Partner at India Internet Fund, about the funding trends in the Indian startup market.

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Ranker CEO Clark Benson (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Dec 15th 2017

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk a little bit about how your investors are viewing the scale potential of your company given the business model that you’ve chosen. What are the discussions that you have with your investors regarding scale? Clark Benson: I need to explain something else to clarify that. Almost every other Internet publisher

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Roundtable Recap: December 14 – Please Do NOT Assume Concepts Can Be Funded

Posted on Thursday, Dec 14th 2017

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ken Elefant, Managing Director at Sorenson Capital, who discussed at length the investment thesis of his firm. OkiDoki First, Elena Avramenko from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pitched OkiDoki, a Slack-like app for family collaboration. Aponia Data Next, Jason Wisdom, New York, New York, pitched Aponia Data, a

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378th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Dec 14th 2017

Today’s 378th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, December 14, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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378th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Dec 14th 2017

Today’s 378th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, December 14, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Ranker CEO Clark Benson (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Dec 14th 2017

Sramana Mitra: When did you launch Ranker? Clark Benson: We launched it in August of 2009. Sramana Mitra: When you launched, what was the reception in the market? Clark Benson: We launched the site with 20,000 lists on it. It started getting traffic. It took a few months to get search traffic. I’m not very

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Ranker CEO Clark Benson (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Dec 13th 2017

Sramana Mitra: What was the business model? Clark Benson: We were living a little bit in a vacuum. The company had moved back to Chicago. I was in LA. I wasn’t very well networked in the Internet space at that time. There were very few internet companies in Chicago. My co-founders were not very well-networked.

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