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Best of Bootstrapping: How iHeartRaves CEO Bootstrapped a Niche e-Commerce Company to $20 Million

Posted on Friday, May 3rd 2019

Niche e-commerce still produces compelling success stories. Read on to see how CEO Brian Lim 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 raised in LA County. My parents immigrated here

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Roundtable Recap: May 2 – India Has Come A Long Way

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd 2019

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest, Vikas Choudhury, Managing Partner at Pivot Ventures, and President at Reliance Jio. Vikas is one of the earliest Angel investors in India, and invested in early successes like InMobi and Myntra. We discussed the evolution of the Indian startup and venture capital industry. Playpal As for

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Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd 2019

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  European startups are fast gaining maturity. ByHours is a venture-funded company growing steadily and expanding globally. Read on for a wonderful story. 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

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442nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd 2019

Today’s 442nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 2, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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442nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd 2019

Today’s 442nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, May 2, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Selcow of Costanoa Ventures (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd 2019

Sramana Mitra: There’s another company that I encountered. It was an Australian company that also did very well starting in Australia. It was also this mobile temporary workforce management type of thing. Have you seen this company called Deputy? Mark Selcow: Yes. Deputy has done really well. Sramana Mitra: Yes. I love these kind of

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Building a New Insurance Company From Scratch: Clearcover CEO Kyle Nakatsuji (Part 7)

Posted on Wednesday, May 1st 2019

Kyle Nakatsuji: The fortunate thing for us is that car insurance is a $230 billion per year market. The fact that one person who didn’t know us wanted to buy was an indication that lots of people we didn’t know would do the same. So we ended up immediately growing pretty quickly, faster than we

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Selcow of Costanoa Ventures (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, May 1st 2019

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about some examples of what you have invested in. In particular, talk about when you encountered the company. At what stage did you invest? What did they have that convinced you that this is a really interesting opportunity that you would like to bet on? Mark Selcow: Skedulo is a company

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