469th Roundtable Recording on January 23, 2020

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 469th 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs January 23, 2020

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Barry Adika, CEO of Brandefender (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Can you give me a sense of how much people are paying for things like that? What’s an average deal size? What ballpark is the pricing? Barry Adika: A company like Adidas has 77 people that’s doing price monitoring every day. They have two lawyers on staff. With our software, they can have

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Catching Up On Readings: FinTech Funding 2019

This feature from TechCrunch looks at the key takeaways from the CB Insights report on funding in the FinTech sector in 2019. Insurtech and payroll and payment solutions were some of the sectors that were trending last year. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Barry Adika, CEO of Brandefender (Part 4)

Barry Adika: Amazon decided to freeze some accounts that don’t have proper documentation. For these sellers, to photoshop an invoice is not a big deal. There’s no enforcement on Amazon’s side. That’s why they have six million members currently. Long story short, those guys got smarter. Let’s say you have a big Amazon account. It’s

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Climbing Out of Despair Through Entrepreneurship: Ferren Rajput, CEO of Book A Jet (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: This $68,000 that this guy paid you, what value did he receive for that? It’s not like there were lots of other jets that he could fly on.  Ferren Rajput: The membership locks you into x number of hours that you can utilize. Every time you book a flight with us, you would

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February 27 – 474th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 474th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, February 27, 2020, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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 questions. Others

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Barry Adika, CEO of Brandefender (Part 3)

Barry Adika: The second algorithm we built was for counterfeit detection based on image recognition. We teach the AI what to look for. There is such diverse information that we teach this AI to look for and bring us results. On some occasions, because search is built by many elements like price, quantity, and reviews,

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Climbing Out of Despair Through Entrepreneurship: Ferren Rajput, CEO of Book A Jet (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to need you to start at the point where you’re launching this company. How did you set up the pieces of this business? How did you get jets? How did you get seats on jets? How did you get customers? Ferren Rajput: I got engaged with a source through which I

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