Taking a Capital Efficient Company Public and Beyond: Medidata CEO Tarek Sherif (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’ve covered Medidata in TLHIT before. This time, we look at the entrepreneurial journey of this wonderful company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of the journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Tarek Sherif:

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Bongo CEO Josh Kamrath (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How did you sell? Selling faculty-by-faculty and direct door-to-door is not a viable scalable model. How did you actually get to market? Josh Kamrath: To answer your question directly, we were selling direct door-to-door. Then we evolved into selling more enterprise-oriented deals. Instead of going to individual faculty, we would go to directors

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Grofers Revives With Focus on Unit Economics and Private Labels

The Indian food and grocery market accounts for about 70% of the retail market, which is why every major player from Amazon to Ola is eyeing it. Online food grocer Grofers has recently raised $220 million in a Series F round led by Softbank Vision Fund. According to a Goldman Sachs report, the Indian online grocery

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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.

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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Colors: Las Casas en las Montañas de Mexico

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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