Catching Up On Readings: Collision 2019

This feature from Digital Trends covers the highlights of the Collision Conference for tech entreprneurs held in Toronto last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Bongo CEO Josh Kamrath (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How far did you get? In terms of metrics, how long did it take you to reach your first million in revenue? Josh Kamrath: It took a solid three years to get to the first million. As we were getting to around a million, we expanded our focus in terms of the business

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Bongo CEO Josh Kamrath (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: We’re avid users of Upwork. We really believe in that whole virtual staffing model. Josh Kamrath: For a big and long part of our history, we used Upwork to get the first iteration of our products to market. We found some developers in Ukraine. We did a bake-off. I had three different teams

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Hemant Mohapatra of Lightspeed Ventures (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Coming back to the more mundane topic of enterprise technology which is what everybody wants to invest in; by and large, in the venture world, what is your analysis? What kind of stuff do you see as interesting and exciting? Hemant Mohapatra: Coming into India, I don’t know how deep the enterprise is.

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June 13 – 446th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 446th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 13, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Bongo CEO Josh Kamrath (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Bongo has turned a ~$1M investment into $6M+ in annual revenue with a compelling growth projection in the next couple of years. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of

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445th Roundtable Recording on May 23, 2019: With Deepen Parikh, Courtside Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Best of Bootstrapping: How Passageways CEO Paroon Chadha Bootstrapped from Indiana

Paroon has bootstrapped Passageways from Indiana and wants to help other Indiana entrepreneurs succeed. Along the way, he has pivoted from licensed software to cloud software, and made other strategic decisions that helped his company become more successful. Read on to learn more on his moves.