Bootstrapping a Marketplace from Brazil: Diego Gomes, CEO of Rock Content (Part 1)

Diego has built a terrific content marketing company from Brazil. He bootstrapped first, raised money later, and has recently acquired a sizable US company to scale. Excellent story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Tell me about your background. Where are you from? Where were you raised?

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Catching Up On Readings: IPO Rush

This feature from Crunchbase looks at the tech startups Unity, Asana, Snowflake, Sumo Logic, and JFrog that filed an S-1 registration document with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last Monday. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Colors: Monsoon in Goa II

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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Cloud Stocks: Intuit Continues to Acquire

Tax software provider Intuit (NASDAQ: INTU) recently announced its fourth-quarter earnings that surpassed market expectations. The company is continuing to build on its products internally and through acquisitions to drive growth.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Raoul Maier of Eudemian Ventures (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the background of the founder that makes him so high quality? Raoul Maier: He was a senior leader at Minerva Project before. He had a very strong leadership background and he also had a strong founder-product fit. He has been working in the child care space for a long time.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping an Ad Tech Company from Paris

Europe is facing difficult times. Entrepreneurs are its best hope. BidMotion CEO Daniel Nathan is building a really cool company based in Paris. 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? Daniel Nathan: I was born very

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Cloud Stocks: Way to Go, Salesforce

It has been another stellar quarter for Salesforce (NYSE: CRM). It announced its second quarter results this week, and what a blowout quarter it was. The company surpassed all market expectations and revised its fiscal year revenue targets upwards despite current pandemic conditions. Earlier this week, Salesforce was also added to the Dow Jones index.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Raoul Maier of Eudemian Ventures (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The valuation numbers you are quoting are Series A and B numbers, right? It’s interesting that you are not experiencing these valuations in post-seed. Raoul Maier: Are you referring to five or ten years ago when you say Series A and B numbers?