1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumner Douglas of BoomStartup (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about the geography. You said Salt Lake City. Does that mean that you’re investing only in new test startups? What is your policy? Sumner Douglas: Definitely not. We definitely do take a lot of surge from Utah. The Utah tech game has grown significantly over the last couple of

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A Fat Startup from Virginia: Andrew Rose, CEO of Compare.com (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What were the strategic nuggets of building that business? 2012 to now, what were some of the inflection points of the business? Andrew Rose: One of the early inflection points was that we had to show success.We had to prove to consumers. I’ll give you a couple of indicative examples, and you can

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