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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Best of Bootstrapping: Alteryx Bootstrapped with Services to a Public Unicorn

Bootstrapping with Services is a tried and true strategy, including for building Unicorns. In our 2012 story, Alteryx CEO Dean Stoecker talks about raising a Series A with $10 million in the bank. Today, Alteryx is a $10+ billion market cap public company. Dean bootstrapped with services early on, and then raised VC money.

Roundtable Recap: February 20 – Comparables are Key

As our guest this week, we had Ashish Jain, Partner at 3Lines Ventures. We discussed his firm’s investment hypothesis. Everydae As for our entrepreneur pitch, today we had Christine Outram pitching Everydae, an educational app venture. I suggested to Christine to investigate comparables for her venture. In 2020, with so much innovation already under way,

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Cloud Stocks: BlackLine Remains Focused on SAP Integration

Cloud-based financial software provider BlackLine (Nasaq: BL) recently announced its fourth quarter results that continued to surpass market expectations on all counts. Its earnings outlook was, however, a bit disappointing. But that has not slowed down the stock’s growth.

Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Barry Adika, CEO of Brandefender (Part 2)

Barry Adika: We didn’t just look for seller information on Amazon. We looked for counterfeit products, quantities that people post online that can raise a red flag for brands.

Climbing Out of Despair Through Entrepreneurship: Ferren Rajput, CEO of Book A Jet (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to 2010 when you launched the company. What did you launch with? Ferren Rajput: When I came out, a friend of mine was looking at a car dealership. It was a Jeep dealership. He said, “You just do this until you get yourself back up on your feet.” I did

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