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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping, Pivoting, Gaining Liquidity, Scaling to $100M+

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2020

Fascinating story of MediaAlpha, beautifully told by Co-founder CEO Steve Yi, relates how the team has navigated through various experiments to over $100 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Steve Yi:

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey in Real Estate Tech: Cloud CMA CEO Greg Robertson (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2020

Greg Robertson: Dan and I stayed there for a couple years, but it was brutal. We then got a call from a friend of ours who was restarting a company that he had sold again to another company. They had given it back because they got caught up in shenanigans. He was restarting that company.

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August 6 – 497th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2020

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 497th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, August 6, 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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Cloud Stocks: ServiceNow Expands Ties with Zoom

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2020

Earlier this week, ServiceNow reported its quarterly results that surpassed market expectations. Despite the COVID-19 crisis, it crossed a milestone of $4 billion ARR for subscriptions in the quarter. And, it shows no signs of slowing down.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Quizlet CEO Matthew Glotzbach (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jul 31st 2020

Sramana Mitra: Talk to me a little bit about the go-to market strategy. It’s all user-generated content. You have a great coverage of high school, college students, and post-academic learning. What is the go-to market strategy? How do people find you? Is it all word-of-mouth? Matthew Glotzbach: We’ve been fortunate that all of our user

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Roundtable Recap: July 30 – Spotlight on Minority Founders

Posted on Thursday, Jul 30th 2020

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Julianne Zimmerman, Managing Director at Reinventure Capital, a firm focused on minority founders. Scribando As for entrepreneur pitches, this week we had Albert Griesmayr from Vienna, Austria, pitch Scribando, a book marketing service. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 496th 1Mby1M Roundtable

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Journey in Real Estate Tech: Cloud CMA CEO Greg Robertson (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 30th 2020

Greg Robertson: We began working with this company called J. Williams and the owner of the company is John Morris. He’s an eccentric character. He had this great CMA program, but it didn’t really have great MOS access capabilities. One of my co-founders, Dan the programmer, had figured out how to not only bring data

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496th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Jul 30th 2020

Today’s 496th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 30, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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