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Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Company: Modded Euros CEO Sean Dawes (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, May 17th 2019

Sramana Mitra: What are the key inflection points? What strategic moves have you made that led to this? Sean Dawes: For us, it was being able to offer similar content generation that we were used to working with when we worked in-house. We launched our own content video series where we’d purchase vehicles and show

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumant Mandal of March Capital Partners (Part 3)

Posted on Thursday, May 16th 2019

Sramana Mitra: I understand when you are working with Hive companies feeding into your venture fund. When you’re working with the more general market of people approaching you, what are you looking for in terms of validation when you want to invest in a company? We’ve heard all kinds of metrics and all kinds of

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444th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, May 16th 2019

Today’s 444th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 16, 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!

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Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Company: Modded Euros CEO Sean Dawes (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, May 16th 2019

Sramana Mitra: The transition from dropship to inventory, how far did you get to dropshipping in terms of gross merchandise volume? Sean Dawes: We did over a million in annual sales before we had to inventory anything. Sramana Mitra: That’s terrific. What did you learn about the customer base? Were they auto shops or were

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444th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, May 16th 2019

Today’s 444th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, May 16, 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!

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumant Mandal of March Capital Partners (Part 2)

Posted on Wednesday, May 15th 2019

Sramana Mitra: You said you have companies in India. Does that mean that you invest globally? What’s the geographical coverage? Sumant Mandal: We will never say that we won’t do something. But if you look at what we’ve done, 75% of our investments are in North America and about 25% is global. Out of that

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Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Company: Modded Euros CEO Sean Dawes (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, May 15th 2019

Sramana Mitra: How long did you do the marketing services before you were able to switch full-time to the online retail car purchasing? Sean Dawes: About two years. We spent some time investigating markets because we weren’t sure if we were going to go in the automotive market. We were exploring a lot of different

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sumant Mandal of March Capital Partners (Part 1)

Posted on Tuesday, May 14th 2019

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Sumant Mandal was recorded in March 2019. Sumant Mandal is Managing Director at March Capital Partners, a firm that invests largely in enterprise-facing businesses with deep technical differentiation. The conversation includes excellent

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