Best of Bootstrapping: Mailchimp Bootstraps to $600M Revenue

According to a Transparency Market Research report, the worldwide market for email marketing is expected to grow at a CAGR of 19.6% from $4.51 billion in 2016 to $22.16 billion by the end of 2025. Mailchimp is a bootstrapped business that provides email marketing services targeting small businesses.

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Tarek Sherif, CEO of Medidata (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You put in context what might happen with the existing workflow of the drug development as we introduce more capability from a scalability point of view. Instead of a drug going through three or four stages of clinical trials, maybe it will go through five or ten stages of clinical trials going into

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187th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Mark Selcow, Costanoa Ventures

Mark Selcow, General Partner at Costanoa Ventures, talks about the firm’s primarily B-to-B investment thesis and strong penchant for investing in companies that have grown up outside the Bay Area.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yash Hemaraj of Arka Venture Labs (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: If you get carried away and raise huge amounts of money, you better have a strategy of doing something that is going to get you to the right exit because all these investors also need exits and you need exits. This is a very complex set of strategic moves that you’re going to

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What Apps Would Add Fuel to Smartsheet’s PaaS Strategy?

According to a Research and Markets report, the global enterprise collaboration software market is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 11% from $31.7 billion in 2018 to $53.8 billion by 2023. Smartsheet (Nasdaq: SMAR), a leading player in the market recently announced its quarterly results that surpassed market expectations and sent the stock soaring

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Tarek Sherif, CEO of Medidata (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at all the things that they’ve been doing and all the product roadmap announcements that they’ve made, they’re going into clinical trials in a big way. That’s why I asked you the question. Historically, they have come out of CRM but clinical research organizations and clinical trials has been one

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188th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Harald Nieder, Redalpine Venture Partners

Harald Nieder, Partner at Redalpine Venture Partners, an European firm primarily focused on Germany and Switzerland.

Thursday, March 28 – 437th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 437th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 28, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/8:30 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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