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Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 12th 2019

Entrepreneurs love to discuss success. Few are willing to discuss what they tried and failed at. Adam does a terrific job of sharing his journey through various failed experiments to a model that is now gaining traction. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you

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Best of Bootstrapping: Tuft & Needle CEO Bootstraps to Over $100 Million

Posted on Friday, Aug 9th 2019

Online mattress is the hottest e-commerce category these days, and here is yet another one delivering venture-scale growth without venture capital. Tuft & Needle CEO JT Marino shares his story. 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

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Roundtable Recap: August 8 – An Innovative Take on VC Funding

Posted on Friday, Aug 9th 2019

During this week’s roundtable, we had Jonathan Nelson, CEO, Founder at Hackers/Founders, and Managing Director of Hack Fund V. Jonathan discussed an innovative take his fund is taking on VC funding.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures (Part 6)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 8th 2019

Sramana Mitra: I want to comment a little bit on your personalized experience theme. I did one of the first ever online personalized fashion companies 20 years ago. The data was not quite there. Now, that’s something that a lot of people are working on. This is a category of products that require quite a

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453rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Aug 8th 2019

Today’s 453rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, August 8 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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453rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Aug 8th 2019

Today’s 453rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, August 8, 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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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Terrence McCrossan, CEO of Oversight Systems (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 8th 2019

Sramana Mitra: When you look around, what are the open problems that you see from your vantage point? I ask this question to all the thought leaders that we bring on to this series. You’re doing one company but when you look around, you see other problems that if you were starting out, that may

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures (Part 5)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 7th 2019

Sramana Mitra: What trends are you seeing in your deal flow? What strikes you as emerging trends? Nnamdi Okike: There are three themes that we use to drive our sourcing strategy. These themes have evolved as a result of what we are seeing in the market, as well as where we’ve done well historically. The

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