Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I’ll tell you from my point of view because in 1Mby1M, we’re trying to get entrepreneurs to be disciplined, scalable, and be able to do more things. If you’re going to go apply for a loan, keeping your QuickBooks up to date is an important piece of the housekeeping. Brock Blake: Yes, no

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 4)

Joshua Strebel: We really enjoy those complex, harder, and out-of-the-normal WordPress workflow cases. There’s also this site called bringatrailer.com. These are a couple of entrepreneurs that probably invite you for one of these interviews. They started with a little online auto auction site and now they’ve gone on to become one of the premier private

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Colors: Stimulating the Renaissance Mind

I’m publishing a new series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about Art and Culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of Art – a painting, a poem, a

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March 7 – 434th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 434th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 7, 2019, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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433rd Roundtable Recording on February 28, 2019: With Rebecca Kaden, Union Square Ventures

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 5)

Brock Blake: We have a partnership with Comcast. In Comcast, we have access to proprietary data around how long have they been a customer, how many employees do they have, what’s their track record of payment, etc. Everyone is looking for a unique source of data that they can access to that others can’t. It’s

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Best of Bootstrapping: The Buy Side of Bootstrapping to an Exit

I am sure you are following the Bootstrapping to Exit (let’s call it B2E) articles. Last time, I showed you some case studies of larger companies who are acquiring bootstrapped startups. In this post, I will double-click down on the buy-side psychology of the B2E phenomenon.

Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the point where you hit the $1 million annual revenue run rate mark? Joshua Strebel: I think that was about 2011 to 2012. So, it took about two and a half to three years to get to a million a year. Sramana Mitra: That’s very good. With a bootstrapped company, that’s

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