1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Exactly. Our spectrum is broader. Yours is specifically the ones that who will get funding. Geoff Ralston: Forgive me, but I disagree, Sramana. You’re broader than the batch, but YC is broader than that. When I first wanted to start a company in the ‘80s, none of this content was available. Now, there’s

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Bret Larsen, CEO of eVisit (Part 4)

Bret Larsen: To your second question, it was Gartner that estimated that the penetration of a platform like eVisit was between 5% and 20%. In the pandemic, everyone had something. Enterprise virtual care platforms would still have that similar penetration rate. What’s accelerated is the use of video. We were inundated with opportunities to speak

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Best of Bootstrapping: PMG Founders Bootstrapped Using Services from Atlanta

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Adding to our roster of Bootstrapping Using Services case studies, here’s my conversation with PMG Founders Joe LeCompte and Robert Castles from 2015. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Tell us a bit about where you come from, where you were born

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: At 1Mby1M, we are in the pre-Series A zone. We don’t care if it’s at napkin stage. We work with that entire spectrum of pre-seed, pre series A. Typically, investors have steered clear from companies that operate in this mode. This category uses virtual company architecture extensively. What are you seeing? What is

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Bret Larsen, CEO of eVisit (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Where are we now in the telemedicine industry? Bret Larsen: Today, we call it telemedicine, virtual care, and telehealth. The reality is it needs to become medicine, care, and health. There is no virtual component. The care received remotely should still be the same quality when receiving it in person.

Best of Bootstrapping: Dave Elkington Bootstrapped Billion Dollar Unicorn InsideSales.com Using Services from Utah

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Our tried-and-true mantra of Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later rings throughout Dave Elkington’s story. As the Founder of InsideSales.com, he used services to bootstrap a Unicorn that had raised close to $140 million in VC funding when we spoke in 2015. Revenue was scaling 100% year

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