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May 9 – 443rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Saturday, May 4th 2019

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 443rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 9, 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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442nd Roundtable Recording on May 2, 2019: With Vikas Choudhury, Pivot Ventures

Posted on Saturday, May 4th 2019

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

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Selcow of Costanoa Ventures (Part 5)

Posted on Saturday, May 4th 2019

Sramana Mitra: Quizlet reminds me of Course Hero which is a company that we have covered extensively as well. Mark Selcow: I’m not as familiar with Course Hero but the world of online mastery and online learning is pretty rich. Sramana Mitra: Course Hero is doing tremendously well. Now you may want to check out

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Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, May 3rd 2019

Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about what you needed to build. You needed to build some software that would allow hotels to manage this process as well as users to make bookings in this mode because none of the OTAs would allow users to even do this at the moment. Guillermo Gaspart: Exactly. We

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Mark Selcow of Costanoa Ventures (Part 4)

Posted on Friday, May 3rd 2019

Mark Selcow: We had a market thesis that more and more employers were going to steer their employees to high-deductible plans because they work. There seemed to be a possible regulatory tailwind where the constraints on a high deductible plan might be relaxed at some point and anyone would be eligible for an HSA. So

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Best of Bootstrapping: How iHeartRaves CEO Bootstrapped a Niche e-Commerce Company to $20 Million

Posted on Friday, May 3rd 2019

Niche e-commerce still produces compelling success stories. Read on to see how CEO Brian Lim built iHeartRaves. 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? Brian Lim: I was raised in LA County. My parents immigrated here

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Roundtable Recap: May 2 – India Has Come A Long Way

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd 2019

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest, Vikas Choudhury, Managing Partner at Pivot Ventures, and President at Reliance Jio. Vikas is one of the earliest Angel investors in India, and invested in early successes like InMobi and Myntra. We discussed the evolution of the Indian startup and venture capital industry. Playpal As for

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Building an Online Travel Company From Barcelona: Guillermo Gaspart, CEO of ByHours (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, May 2nd 2019

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  European startups are fast gaining maturity. ByHours is a venture-funded company growing steadily and expanding globally. Read on for a wonderful story. 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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