Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Eyelation CEO Brad Kirschner (Part 1)

I have always believed in the power of niche e-commerce to build sustainable businesses. Eyelation is a great example. Read on for more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Eyelation. Brad Kirschner: I’m the CEO and Founder of Eyelation. We’ve been in business since 2009. I developed a self-service safety

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Cloud Stocks: BlackLine Partners with Google Cloud

Cloud-based financial software provider BlackLine (Nasdaq: BL) continues to win several accolades for both its product and overall growth. For the tenth year in a row, it made it to Deloitte’s list of 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences, and energy tech companies in North America. It was also the leader in Gartner 2019

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Bootstrapping a Marketplace: Sardor Umrdinov, CEO of Home Alliance (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You were providing technicians for various appliances. Why do you need all these software developers? Sardor Umrdinov: Our lead generation is through website and SEO. We do SEO locally. We pipeline those leads to our CRM. You couldn’t do it with other CRMs, so we had to build our own. It was expensive

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464th Roundtable Recording on November 7, 2019: With Francisco Jardim, SP Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 464th 1Mby1M Roundtable November 7, 2019: With Francisco Jardim, SP Ventures

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Alok Nandan of Emergent Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: When they started Observe.ai and when you wrote your first check, they did not have yet a product? Alok Nandan: They were building something else when they met us. Over the course of the next six months, they iterated and pivoted and eventually arrived at this idea. Initially, we wrote them a small

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eBay to Foray into Fulfillment

eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) recently reported its third quarter results. Its GMV declined in the US and it missed revenue estimates. While the new internet sales tax laws are partly to blame, increasing competition is also a tough challenge for eBay.

Bootstrapping a Marketplace: Sardor Umrdinov, CEO of Home Alliance (Part 1)

Sardor has bootstrapped a marketplace of home appliance technicians to over $10 million in revenue. Great story. 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 background?

Catching Up On Readings: India Cloud Spending 2020

This report from Gartner says that end-user spending on public cloud services will grow 25% in 2020. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.