410th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 410th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Tuesday, August 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!

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410th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 410th FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Tuesday, August 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 a Niche e-Commerce Company to $20 Million: iHeartRaves CEO Brian Lim (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Is it a glove that you’re selling? I’m trying to understand the form factor of the product that you’re selling here. Brian Lim: They’re white stretch gloves with LED lights at their fingertips. The technology is much more advanced than what we had before. Today you can program these lights using a Bluetooth

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nate Redmond of Alpha Edison (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Nate Redmond of Alpha Edison was recorded in February 2018. Nate Redmond, Managing Partner at Alpha Edison, a VC who has put trust-driven ventures at the center of his investment thesis. It’s a very

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Bootstrapping a Niche e-Commerce Company to $20 Million: iHeartRaves CEO Brian Lim (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Niche e-commerce still produces compelling success stories. Read on to see how Brian built iHeartRaves. 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? Brian Lim: I was born

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Scaling to $10M ARR with a Virtual Company: Fred Plais, CEO of Platform.sh (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How did your VCs react on the topic of a virtual company? Fred Plais: This divides people a lot. The world is changing. People are starting to buy the story more and more. We need the same engineers at Google today. We’re doing some complex things on cloud. It requires some extremely experienced

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Catching Up On Readings: Local News Crisis

This feature from The Washington Post by Margaret Sullivan examines how the dwindling employment numbers in regional newspaper newsrooms is affecting local coverage and a set of common facts to argue about. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Scaling to $10M ARR with a Virtual Company: Fred Plais, CEO of Platform.sh (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Your first financing was US financing? Fred Plais: It was financed by French and Finnish VCs. It’s difficult when you’re pivoting. You get a business that’s not going that fast anymore and you get another one which is picking up. You need to reinvent everything. Financial investors have a timeline. They’ve been supportive.

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