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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 2)

Posted on Thursday, Feb 28th 2019

Sramana Mitra: What were some of the mistakes? Joshua Strebel: Not really knowing how to market. For designers and developers, I think it’s so easy to build a product. It’s really hard to get that product into the hands of your customers. If you recall in that time period, when Twitter and Facebook were new,

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 27th 2019

Sramana Mitra: Talk to us about those different categories of financing that apply to our audience. What kind of metrics are people looking for? Brock Blake: I’m going to talk about this generally for a second and then I’ll get down a little bit more specifically to that industry. Generally, lenders are going to underwrite

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 1)

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 27th 2019

We recently did a Spotlight on Entrepreneurship in Arizona. Here is one more terrific story of bootstrapping success from Arizona. 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? Joshua Strebel: I was born in a little town in

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 26th 2019

Brock Blake: You asked about lenders. As I mentioned, we have 75 lenders on our platform. We have some of the big ones like Bank of America and American Express. We also have traditional banks. We have non-banks on our platform like OnDeck Capital, Kabbage, Funding Circle, and a bunch of those players that are

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Thursday, February 28 – 433rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 26th 2019

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 433rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, February 28, 2019, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Feb 25th 2019

Small business lending is an extremely important finance function that is full of sand in the gear. Lendio is working on smoothening the process and adding velocity into the ecosystem. We discuss the future of this corner of FinTech in this fascinating conversation. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and to

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Thought Leaders in Internet of Things: Joe Lea, VP of Product at Armis (Part 5)

Posted on Monday, Feb 25th 2019

Sramana Mitra: I understand what you’re doing. You said you have 200 enterprises that have already adopted your technology? Joe Lea: We do. That’s critical. The broader our deployment, the more places we deploy. The level of accurately identifying suspicious events is better the more that we see. We’re happy to report that we finished

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190th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Matt Holleran, Cloud Apps Capital Partners

Posted on Monday, Feb 25th 2019

Matt Holleran, General Partner at Cloud Apps Capital Partners, talks about his firm’s investment thesis in what he calls classic Series A. His is one of the rare firms that invest at the concept stage.

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