Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 5)

Brock Blake: We have a partnership with Comcast. In Comcast, we have access to proprietary data around how long have they been a customer, how many employees do they have, what’s their track record of payment, etc. Everyone is looking for a unique source of data that they can access to that others can’t. It’s

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Best of Bootstrapping: The Buy Side of Bootstrapping to an Exit

I am sure you are following the Bootstrapping to Exit (let’s call it B2E) articles. Last time, I showed you some case studies of larger companies who are acquiring bootstrapped startups. In this post, I will double-click down on the buy-side psychology of the B2E phenomenon.

Cloud Stocks: Open Platform Strategy Stands Intuit in Good Stead

It is tax season and initial reports suggest that there may be a slowdown in the e-filings. According to the IRS data through February 8th, the total e-filed returns fell 7.1% and assisted e-files fell 12.5% over the year. The new tax legislation and the extended partial government shutdown is expected to have impacted consumer

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Bootstrapping from Arizona to $10 Million: Joshua Strebel, CEO of Pagely (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the point where you hit the $1 million annual revenue run rate mark? Joshua Strebel: I think that was about 2011 to 2012. So, it took about two and a half to three years to get to a million a year. Sramana Mitra: That’s very good. With a bootstrapped company, that’s

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Roundtable Recap: February 28 – Pay Attention to Physical Experiences, Not Just Digital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Rebecca Kaden, General Partner at Union Square Ventures. We discussed her firm’s capital efficient investment thesis and debated the pros and cons of blitzscaling. Wellnesys As for entrepreneur pitches, up first Muralidhar Somisetty from Bangalore, India, pitched Wellnesys, a digital powered yoga mat to help corporations offer

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Brock Blake, CEO of Lendio (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are the trends in the industry? One of the trends that I’m starting to see is that what started more as a FinTech phenomenon is starting to come into the mainstream. One of the companies you’ve mentioned earlier is American Express. I actually did a story last year with American Express’ FinTech

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