412th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Bill Baumel, Ohio Innovation Fund

Bill Baumel, Managing Director at Ohio Innovation Fund, shares terrific insight into the region’s progress.

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422nd Roundtable Recording on November 8, 2018: With Nihal Mehta, ENIAC Ventures

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to 5 Million Plus: Nick Shaw, CEO of Renaissance Periodization (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch to customer acquisition. You said you have 85,000 people in your Facebook group. How did you get to these kinds of numbers? Nick Shaw: Our number one strategy is social media. That was pretty evident early on. Being in the health and fitness industry, it’s very visual-oriented. People want specific results.

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Catching Up On Readings: Top 10 Cities for VC Funds in 2018

This feature from TechCrunch looks at the top 10 cities worldwide for supergiant VC rounds for over $100M. US-based companies have raised 168 supergiant rounds than their Chinese counterparts, but Chinese companies raise much bigger rounds. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Kelly Perdew of Moonshots Capital (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What is the definition, in your case, of late seed and early Series A? What metrics are you looking for? Kelly Perdew: Typically, there’s an MVP. They’ve found a problem where they’ve either built a solution for and have started selling that to more than one client. They’ve raised some money. Usually, it’s

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Bootstrapping a Virtual Company to 5 Million Plus: Nick Shaw, CEO of Renaissance Periodization (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like you’ve created more of a content business. Nick Shaw: Yes. I would say we’re in the education business. We give people the education on what they need to eat, when, and how much. Sramana Mitra: An online learning kind of program. What’s the form factor of how you distribute this?

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What Makes Startups Creativity Tanks?

By Guest Author Marylene Delbourg-Delphis Peter Cappelli, Professor of Management at Wharton School and Director of the Wharton’s Center for Human Resources endorsed Marylene Delbourg-Delphis’ book Everybody Wants to Love Their Job: Rebuilding Trust and Culture, saying “The energizing culture of the start-up world can be imported to even the biggest organizations. A powerful case for bringing the

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Marylene Delbourg-Delphis

  Marylene Delbourg-Delphis is a serial technology CEO, executive consultant and board member who has focused on avant-garde products throughout her career.