Bootstrapping to $33 Million: Freightwise CIO Richard Hoehn (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I know you are above $5 million in revenue. Do you want to provide any metric beyond that? Any more granularity? Richard Hoehn: We’re quite a bit more than $5 million. We did $33.6 million last year. We’re number two, fastest growing company in the United States on Inc 5000. Sramana Mitra: Fantastic.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rodrigo Baer of Redpoint Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk a bit more in detail about the Redpoint e.ventures platform. All investments are happening in Brazil, correct? Rodrigo Baer: We have a Latin American mandate. We’ve done one investment outside of Brazil in the first fund. We were very lucky. We did the seed investment in Rappi, which is now a

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November 7 – 464th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 463rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, November 7, 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

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Bootstrapping to $33 Million: Freightwise CIO Richard Hoehn (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next? Richard Hoehn: Now we got some money and start ramping into sales. You also got the whole complexity of managing this money. What we do is, we aggregate and pay the carriers. If we have a client and we save them money on a specific carrier like FedEx, FedEx sends

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rodrigo Baer of Redpoint Ventures (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 Rodrigo Baer was recorded in September 2019. Rodrigo Baer, Partner at Redpoint Ventures, Brazil, provides a very interesting overview of his firm and what’s happening in the Brazilian ecosystem.

Best of Bootstrapping: Can You Bootstrap a Virtual Company to Over $5 Million?

Renaissance Periodization CEO Nick Shaw has done just that. He has built a very interesting e-learning company and addressed scalability with nifty strategic choices. Read on, you’ll learn a lot. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of

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463rd Roundtable Recording on October 31, 2019: With Anand Rajaraman, rocketship.vc

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 463rd 1Mby1M Roundtable October 31, 2019: Anand Rajaraman, rocketship.vc

Roundtable Recap: October 31 – Quality of Startups from India is Improving Steadily

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Anand Rajaraman, Founding Partner at rocketship.vc. Anand was an early investor in Facebook. Among other things, we discussed how the quality of startups from India has been improving. Digital Parliament As for entrepreneur pitches, today we had Harsha Mukherjee from Mumbai, India, pitch Digital Parliament, a

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