Navigating Multiple Product Pivots: Jebbit CEO Tom Coburn (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do after the pivot? Tom Coburn: We try to not talk about 2014 to 2015 because they were very hard years. I remember the Board meeting at the end of 2013 where I said, “We have $1.7 million in the bank. We need to pivot this idea to something different.”

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Did you get the funding first before building the product or vice versa? Ben Hodson: We built the product for the funding. It would not have gotten the funding if it weren’t for the product and the first customer. We had been raising money for a year and a half. I have probably

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538th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Ben Narasin, Tenacity Venture Capital

Ben Narasin is Founder and General Partner at Tenacity Venture Capital, a new Seed fund.

July 29 – 540th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 540th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 29, 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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Navigating Multiple Product Pivots: Jebbit CEO Tom Coburn (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You were recruiting college students. When a brand wanted to do market research, they’d come to your site and you would not only provide them with software to run their surveys but also provide the focus groups. Tom Coburn: Yes. When Dharmesh invested, we were a couple of thousand dollars in revenue. We

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Roundtable Recap: July 22 – Conversation with Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator. We had a terrific discussion on what we each are seeing in the ecosystem. Re:Mind As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Bindu Thirupathi from Bengaluru, India, pitch Re:Mind, a wellness wearable. CultureTalk Then, 1Mby1M Premium members Theresa Agresta and

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 2)

Ben Hodson: Later, that code ended up evolving into something that could auto-rekey those servers without ever having any downtime. We dubbed it Encryption Management. We hadn’t come up with all of that at the time when we were doing this business plan competition, but that was the seed of that idea. The business plan

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177th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with James Cramer, Zimit

James Cramer, Founder and Co-CEO at Zimit, shares his journey of bootstrapping using services to $10 million in revenue. Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. This is a fantastic textbook case study.