Building a High Impact Social Enterprise over 20+ Years: Roberto Milk, CEO of NOVICA (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How did your numbers track of the money that you sent to artisans as you went along? Roberto Milk: It took us 10 years to get to $25 million. It took us another four years to get to $50 million. We got to $50 million in June of 2014. Sramana Mitra: What is

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Building a High Impact Social Enterprise over 20+ Years: Roberto Milk, CEO of NOVICA (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: When 9/11 hit, you were still operating with just that $6 million in funding? Roberto Milk: We had funding from National Geographic as well. Sramana Mitra: What was the cash portion of that? Roberto Milk: We don’t disclose that. It was cash and assets.

Building a High Impact Social Enterprise over 20+ Years: Roberto Milk, CEO of NOVICA (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: This is before any venture capital. You’re still working with your $1.5 million angel round. Roberto Milk: No. In April of 2000, we did our first venture capital round. Sramana Mitra: How much did you raise?

July 16 – 494th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

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From eBay Seller to Software Entrepreneur: Seller Labs CEO Paul Johnson (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What was the trajectory of the revenue growth? How did you do year after year? Paul Johnson: 2011 was when we first started doing this. In our first year, which was not a full year, we probably sold $50,000 worth of merchandise. Then in 2012, we were around half a million dollars. By

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This is a wonderful bootstrapping with a paycheck story of a really smart, scrappy entrepreneur, Suuchi Ramesh, CEO of Suuchi. 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? Suuchi Ramesh: I was born in India. I spent

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