AppFolio Scaling via Capital-Efficient Acquisitions

According to Gartner, the worldwide public cloud services market is projected to grow 17.5% to $214.3 billion in 2019. AppFolio (NASDAQ: APPF) is a SaaS player operating in niche vertical markets like real estate management and law practice management.  

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Candid Discussion of a Bootstrapper’s Journey through Failures to Success: Robly CEO Adam Robinson (Part 1)

Entrepreneurs love to discuss success. Few are willing to discuss what they tried and failed at. Adam does a terrific job of sharing his journey through various failed experiments to a model that is now gaining traction. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you

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Colors: Le Village de Cézanne, Crépuscule

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about Art and Culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of Art – a painting, a poem, a piece

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Best of Bootstrapping: Tuft & Needle CEO Bootstraps to Over $100 Million

Online mattress is the hottest e-commerce category these days, and here is yet another one delivering venture-scale growth without venture capital. Tuft & Needle CEO JT Marino shares his 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

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Cloud Stocks: Partnerships are the Mantra for BlackLine

According to a Market Study Report published earlier this year, the global cloud accounting software market is expected to grow 9% annually to $4.3 billion by the year 2024. The researcher pegs the industry’s revenues at $2.63 billion for the current year. Cloud-based financial software provider, BlackLine (Nasaq: BL) is a leading SaaS-based financial software

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Roundtable Recap: August 8 – An Innovative Take on VC Funding

During this week’s roundtable, we had Jonathan Nelson, CEO, Founder at Hackers/Founders, and Managing Director of Hack Fund V. Jonathan discussed an innovative take his fund is taking on VC funding.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Nnamdi Okike of 645 Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: I want to comment a little bit on your personalized experience theme. I did one of the first ever online personalized fashion companies 20 years ago. The data was not quite there. Now, that’s something that a lot of people are working on. This is a category of products that require quite a

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453rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 453rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, August 8 at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!