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Bootstrapping a Tech Company by an English Major: Kevin Groome, Founder of Pica9 (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Nov 22nd 2019

Sramana Mitra: How many clients did you have in 2007? Kevin Groome: Brands under management were 40. Billing relationships were probably 15. Sramana Mitra: What kind of revenue level were you at? Kevin Groome: We were at around $1.6 million in subscription revenue. We used to call ourselves an ASP.

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Roundtable Recap: November 21 – A Superb Discussion on Artificial Intelligence

Posted on Thursday, Nov 21st 2019

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Arijit Sengupta, Founder and CEO at Aible. Previously, Arijit founded another AI startup, BeyondCore, which was acquired by Salesforce.com. This was an excellent discussion, and I urge you to check it out. Ederlabs As for the pitches, up first, we had Sharat Satyanarayana from Bangalore, India,

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Bootstraps First to $5M ARR, Raises $10M Later: Toucan Toco CEO Charles Miglietti (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Nov 21st 2019

Sramana Mitra: What else is interesting in your strategy? Charles Miglietti: What we are building right now. We are building a series of ready-to-use applications that will be plugged into existing systems. As we provide the very top layer of the visualization, we can build business applications that rely on any existing ERP or any

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466th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Nov 21st 2019

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466th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Nov 21st 2019

Today’s 466th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, November 21 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 a Tech Company by an English Major: Kevin Groome, Founder of Pica9 (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Nov 21st 2019

Sramana Mitra: How big was that deal with Marriott? Kevin Groome: At that time, not that big. It was less than $100,000 a year. They are now our largest client. They spent probably $30 million with us. Sramana Mitra: $100,000 for a small company year-over-year is not a small amount of money.

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Bootstraps First to $5M ARR, Raises $10M Later: Toucan Toco CEO Charles Miglietti (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 20th 2019

Sramana Mitra: Once you hit this limit and you realized that you had to do something else, what did you do? Charles Miglietti: We looked at our customer base. We identified the pattern in terms of persona and use case. We kept only the good ones – the ones that were repeatable. Sramana Mitra: What

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Bootstrapping a Tech Company by an English Major: Kevin Groome, Founder of Pica9 (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Nov 20th 2019

Sramana Mitra: Let me start driving you towards the entrepreneur journey story. When you decided to launch this, who developed the software? How did you finance the software development and getting to a product? The idea came from a particular client situation where you experienced this problem. You have an understanding of the pain point.

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