Best of Bootstrapping: Discussing E-commerce Startup Trends with Daniel Gulati, Forecast Fund

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Excellent discussion with Daniel Gulati, Founding Partner at Forecast Fund, on the e-commerce startup trends and what can and cannot be venture financed at this stage, and why. When we spoke in 2017, he was Managing Director at Comcast Ventures. You can listen to

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Thursday, April 8 – 526th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 526th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 8, 2021, 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 questions. Others

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Brandon Newman, CEO of Xevant (Part 2)

Brandon Newman: Drugs are becoming a highly prevalent part of the overall delivery of healthcare. It has become the focus. For example, these health plans that help manage $500 million are going to enable dozens of new specialty biologic medications come to market that is not going to cost your stereotypical couple of hundred dollars.

Bootstrapping Using Services from Atlanta: Avelead CEO Jawad Shaikh (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me a little bit more about what the product is? What was the process of identifying this product that you wanted to build? Jawad Shaikh: This was during the Obama years and the stimulus package of helping healthcare systems move to electronic medical records. Our job was always to help hospitals implement

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525th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Sumant Mandal, March Capital

Sumant Mandal, Co-founder and Managing Partner at March Capital, emphasizes the impact of Covid on virtual companies and remote teams and discusses his investment thesis.

Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Brandon Newman, CEO of Xevant (Part 1)

Brandon talks about unlocking savings related to expensive versus affordable drugs. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself and Xevant.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Unique Vintage Using a Paycheck

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Founder CEO Katie Echeverry had a pharmaceutical sales job that she used to bootstrap with a paycheck for 5 years, before quitting to go full-time with her business, Unique Vintage. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Tell us where you’re

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Atlanta: Avelead CEO Jawad Shaikh (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. As usual, we love Bootstrapping Using Services case studies. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?