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?

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July 16 – 494th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 494th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, July 16, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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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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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493rd Roundtable Recording on July 9, 2020: With Joe Silver, Lighter Capital

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 493rd 1Mby1M Roundtable July 9, 2020: With Joe Silver, Lighter Capital

Best of Bootstrapping: Wonderful Bootstrap with a Paycheck Story

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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Roundtable Recap: July 9 – Debt Financing Options for Bootstrapped Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Joe Silver, CFO at Lighter Capital. Joe discussed his firm’s debt-financing model for startups. Vision PhoneAs for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Sourav Sanyal from Bangalore, India, pitching Vision Phone, a lower cost, feature-rich smartphone for the Indian market. KawemiValleyNext, Adetola Asa from Ile-Ife, Nigeria,

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Building a High Impact Social Enterprise over 20+ Years: Roberto Milk, CEO of NOVICA (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: It was going to be an artisan marketplace, right? Roberto Milk: That’s right. We were leaving these corporate positions for that. Sramana Mitra: How did you get your first set of artisans to come on board and start selling on the site?

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