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 Phone As 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. KawemiValley Next, Adetola Asa from

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Mimecast Focuses on Integration to Lure the Enterprise Segment

According to a recent Markets and Markets report, the global email encryption market in the post-COVID-19 scenario is projected to grow at 24% CAGR from $3.4 billion this year to $9.9 billion by 2025. The growth in the industry is attributed to increasing phishing and spam emails, stricter industry regulations, and government mandate for data

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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?

493rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 493rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 9, 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!

From eBay Seller to Software Entrepreneur: Seller Labs CEO Paul Johnson (Part 4)

Paul Johnson: We built our own software to manage everything. We built a smaller version of Amazon’s software where we would bring in inventory, sticker it, and then shelve it. We built software that would list that stuff. We had two divisions. One was books and the other was everything else. We sold about a

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493rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 493rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, July 9 at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click

Thursday, July 9 – 493rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 493rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, July 9, 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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