Catching Up On Readings: Tech IPOs of 2020

This feature from Crunchbase News lists all the tech companies that have gone public in the year 2020. Even after the COVID-induced lull, the IPO market had 23 IPOs this year, compared to 27 in 2019. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship to $30 Million from India: Ankit Oberoi, CEO of AdPushup (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me about cracking into the larger publishers from a go-to-market standpoint. How did you get your first larger publisher to buy the product? How did that evolve? Ankit Oberoi: I think the first five or ten was still easy because we were so connected in the ecosystem and had so many

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Robert Weber of Great North Labs (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Here in 1M1M, we are huge believers in bootstrapping. We encourage people to bootstrap first and raise money later. It creates a healthier term sheet and trajectory, but it is hard to do in such expensive cost structure situations. My other question, based on what you have said, is about the structure and

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship to $30 Million from India: Ankit Oberoi, CEO of AdPushup (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Did you bring in not just Google’s ad server but also other vertical ad servers? Were you also running an auction on your end across all those different ad networks? Ankit Oberoi: Not only did we bring in those ad networks but we also brought in those ad networks on different ad demands

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Best of Bootstrapping: Lawline CEO Bootstraps to $10M

Wonderful story of how Lawline CEO David Schnurman, an online education entrepreneur,  worked through plateaus and scaled his business over the last 15 years. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have? David Schnurman: I’m from Brooklyn,

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Robert Weber of Great North Labs (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: A couple of questions emerge from what you have said. I’ll ask them in sequence. What is the current dynamics of companies building out of Minnesota? You talked about Zencoder which started in Minnesota. Did they move to Silicon Valley or did they continue to operate from Wisconsin?  Robert Weber: Initially, Zencoder maintained

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January 7 – 514th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 514th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, January 7, 2021, 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

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship to $30 Million from India: Ankit Oberoi, CEO of AdPushup (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you course correct from there? Ankit Oberoi: It took much longer than we anticipated. We had to first understand the fundamentals. We spent six months doing that. We didn’t shut down the business. We had started making $50,000 to $60,000 a month.