Best of Bootstrapping: Seed Investors Who Like Bootstrapped Businesses

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. I would like to encourage bootstrapping entrepreneurs to start thinking about certain investors as bootstrapping partners. These investors, typically, LIKE capital efficient businesses. They do not want to force feed capital into companies, unlike certain larger funds. Their fund sizes

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Life Image CEO Matthew Michela (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: My next question is going to be about what trends are you seeing. How are your customers using data? Obviously you have a very rich dataset in your ecosystem. What are some unique and interesting visionary ways that data is being used and interesting applications of it being developed on top of that

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Building a New Insurance Company From Scratch: Clearcover CEO Kyle Nakatsuji (Part 1)

The insurance industry is archaic and offers much room for re-engineering. Kyle discusses how he is going about it. 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? Kyle Nakatsuji: I was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. I was born

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Life Image CEO Matthew Michela (Part 1)

An in-depth conversation on the stage of data in the medical world. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Life Image. Matthew Michela: I’m the President and CEO of Life Image. Life Image is a medical evidence-based technology platform that services a wide variety of healthcare entities and partners

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Roundtable Recap: April 23 – Do Not Spend Big Money on Free B-to-C Customer Acquisition

During this week’s roundtable, we had four serious entrepreneurs pitching from four distinctly different corners of the world. Social&Care Up first we had the recent winner of a 1Mby1M Basic scholarship sponsored by EIT Health, Ignacio Barraque from Zaragoza, Spain, pitched Social&Care, an elderly care solution. ReferenceGlobe Next, Nag Kukkadapu from Hyderabad, India, pitched ReferenceGlobe,

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Drura Parrish, President of Xometry (Part 6)

Drura Parrish: In manufacturing, margins are spread across a lot of players. In between all those players, there’re different collection fees at every point. On one hand for manufacturing, you’ve got systems for both data and protocols and machines. On the other hand, you have financial systems that still aren’t concrete.

May 2 – 442nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 442nd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 2, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Harald Nieder of Redalpine Venture Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In the other two parts of the portfolio where things are coming by referral, is there anything specific that’s interesting that you would like to discuss? Harald Nieder: What’s interesting there is that there are a lot of different factors between the networks. If you look at our fund investors, that’s actually quite

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