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Roundtable Recap: February 28 – Pay Attention to Physical Experiences, Not Just Digital

Posted on Thursday, Feb 28th 2019

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rebecca Kaden, General Partner at Union Square Ventures. We discussed her firm’s capital efficient investment thesis and debated the pros and cons of blitzscaling. Wellnesys As for entrepreneur pitches, up first Muralidhar Somisetty from Bangalore, India, pitched Wellnesys, a digital powered yoga mat to help corporations offer

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 28th 2019

Sramana Mitra: What are the trends in the industry? One of the trends that I’m starting to see is that what started more as a FinTech phenomenon is starting to come into the mainstream. One of the companies you’ve mentioned earlier is American Express. I actually did a story last year with American Express’ FinTech

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433rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Feb 28th 2019

Today’s 433rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 28, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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433rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Feb 28th 2019

Today’s 433rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 28, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 28th 2019

Sramana Mitra: What were some of the mistakes? Joshua Strebel: Not really knowing how to market. For designers and developers, I think it’s so easy to build a product. It’s really hard to get that product into the hands of your customers. If you recall in that time period, when Twitter and Facebook were new,

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 27th 2019

Sramana Mitra: Talk to us about those different categories of financing that apply to our audience. What kind of metrics are people looking for? Brock Blake: I’m going to talk about this generally for a second and then I’ll get down a little bit more specifically to that industry. Generally, lenders are going to underwrite

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 27th 2019

We recently did a Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Arizona. Here is one more terrific story of bootstrapping success from Arizona. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background? Joshua Strebel: I was born in a little town in

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 26th 2019

Brock Blake: You asked about lenders. As I mentioned, we have 75 lenders on our platform. We have some of the big ones like Bank of America and American Express. We also have traditional banks. We have non-banks on our platform like OnDeck Capital, Kabbage, Funding Circle, and a bunch of those players that are

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