1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Holleran of Cloud Apps Capital Partners (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: If you look at your 2018 deal flow, how many deals have you looked at? What are the nuggets you’re seeing that speak somehow to your investment thesis? What are you seeing out there? Matt Holleran: We make about three or four investments per year and the reason for that is we do

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Building a Virtual Company to $20 Million: Rob Cheng, CEO of PC Pitstop (Part 2)

Rob Cheng: I got to know Ted very well throughout that period of time. Ultimately, I introduced him to my friend in Colombia. They started to do business together. Another thing that happened that was very interesting was that Texas Instruments decided to go and stop the production of the PC. I’ve become friends with

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Colors: Rice Terraces, Reflections

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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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Holleran of Cloud Apps Capital Partners (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about a few of your portfolio companies. What have you invested in that you feel really good about? What did you see in these companies that really captured your attention? You gave us one example to begin with. So give us a little bit more color on these companies that you

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Building a Virtual Company to $20 Million: Rob Cheng, CEO of PC Pitstop (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course. Rob figured out the joys of virtual companies back in 1999. Today, he runs a 65-person virtual company that makes $20 million in revenue. Wonderful story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,

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1Mby1M Deal Radar 2019: Amplify.ai, Palo Alto, CA

According to Statistics MRC, the global contact center market was estimated to be $26 billion in 2018. Amplify.ai claims to be the industry’s first and only AI-driven engagement platform that amplifies customer engagement with immersive and persistent conversations. Its end-to-end platform offers tools to measure, optimize and manage the full lifecycle of a brand experience.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Matt Holleran of Cloud Apps Capital Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Now let’s tie this into the investment strategies that you are following. What kind of cloud companies appeal to you? Of course, you want a venture scale category. That’s table stakes, otherwise, you don’t want to do the kind of investing that you’re doing. But within that, we’re looking at a very mature

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck

As I started analyzing various paths to success via bootstrapping, one became absolutely obvious: holding onto a job and doing a startup part time. We gave this a name: Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, and published a book on the subject: Entrepreneur Journeys Bootstrapping With A Paycheck (Available for order from Amazon Kindle)