Colors: Nestled Valley, Snow

I’m publishing this 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 piece

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435th Roundtable Recording on March 14, 2019: With David Lambert, Right Side Capital Management

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Preeti Rathi of Ignition Partners (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What about geography? What’s comfortable? Preeti Rathi: From a geography perspective, we’re really focused on companies right here in the US. Given our model of working hand in hand with our portfolio companies, we basically will wear whatever hat our portfolio companies require us to wear. You need help with strategy, we’ll do

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping to Unicorns

While it doesn’t happen that often, Bootstrapped Unicorns do exist. My 2014 Entrepreneur Journeys book, Billion Dollar Unicorns has a whole section on this topic. You can read an excerpt on my blog titled Bootstrapped Unicorns. In this piece, I discuss three companies, Zoho, eClinicalWorks, and Veeam, that have bootstrapped to about a billion dollars in

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Socialbakers CEO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How does that translate into ROI? Do you have specific customer scenarios where you’ve seen your technology make significant impact? How do you measure that impact? What’s measurable in what you’re talking about here. Yuval Ben-Itzhak: A common challenge for marketers is to demonstrate ROI for the work that they’re doing. Because the

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Roundtable Recap: March 14 – Do NOT Write Software Without a Business Model Hypothesis

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest David Lambert, Managing Director at Right Side Capital Management, a firm that invests small chunks of capital in capital efficient ventures. The firm is very much in line with the Bootstrapping to Exit philosophy we’ve been discussing. Mopstar As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Preeti Rathi of Ignition Partners (Part 1)

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Preeti Rathi was recorded in January 2019. Preeti Rathi, Partner at Ignition Partners, discusses the changing dynamics of seed investing. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about yourself as well as acquaint

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Socialbakers CEO, Yuval Ben-Itzhak (Part 1)

Yuval has been in the Content Marketing industry for a long time and has very specific insights on that industry’s evolution in the age of AI. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to Socialbakers and to yourself. Yuval Ben-Itzhak: I’m the Chief Executive Officer of Socialbakers. We’re a marketing tech company providing marketing

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