Bootstrapping to $10 Million: Lawline CEO David Schnurman ( Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Wonderful story of an online education entrepreneur and how he 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

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Catching Up On Readings: Black Friday Online Sales

This feature from TechCrunch covers the 21.6% surge in Black Friday online sales this year to $9 billion. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Colors: Lighthouse on the White Cliffs of Bonifacio

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 – one of my paintings – and

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Rich Longo, President of NXTSoft (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The example that you gave of Neilsoft versus Salesforce is not the right example for you. The right example is Salesforce itself and its Force.com platform where a lot of people have built a lot of applications.  Rich Longo: Yes, Force.com is a perfect example. You could look at others that built their

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Grapevine6 CEO Mike Orr (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: On the B2B side, it’s very difficult to turn these people to marketing because what you are describing are very good influencer strategies. This is something that I have done effectively for many years. It’s not something that comes naturally to people – sharing content. First, you have to have your antennas out

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510th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Vishesh Rajaram, Speciale Invest

Vishesh Rajaram, Managing Partner, Speciale Invest, discusses his fund’s investment thesis.

Rendezvous Online Recording: November 24, 2020

Some audience questions answered: – How does a big company go about figuring out which smaller company to acquire? – How can a startup get the first 100 customers? – How can a college student best prepare for starting a career in entrepreneurship? – What are some of the biggest obstacles to raising capital for

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Rich Longo, President of NXTSoft (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let me ask a bit of a 30,000-foot level question to synthesize what you have said so far. Is your company set up as a platform and you have all these different use cases that you build on top of that? Or is it a product company? How is it structured? Rich Longo:

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