Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10m: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What were you trying to build in the first iteraton? David Moricca: The original vision was an online music creation platform targeting young people. It’s called Breakout Band. We created one of the first music creation platforms. It had a beatmaker where you can create your own beats. You can add your own

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Non-Technical Founder Scaling SaaS Venture to Exit: Velocify Founder Jeff Solomon (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: To underscore what you said about joining the software industry in a business development role, it’s a common path for non-technical people. What you’re describing is a very good example of how entrepreneurs with non-technical backgrounds make their way to technology entrepreneurship. Jeff Solomon: Yes. I learned a lot about how it all

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Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10M: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You have a political science and law background. Then you went to McKinsey to do some consulting work. This brings us to 2006 now? David Moricca: 2005. Sramana Mitra: What happens then? David Moricca: I was itching to move from consulting into more of an operational role. Because of my previous background and

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11 Udemy Courses on How To Build a 2-Sided e-Commerce Marketplace Startup

Two-sided marketplaces are becoming increasingly popular in the e-commerce startup world. eBay and Etsy are some of the most obvious examples of two-sided marketplaces, but now we are seeing a lot of niche and esoteric marketplaces as well all over the world. 

December 9 – 556th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 556th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, December 9, 2021, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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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Non-Technical Founder Scaling SaaS Venture to Exit: Velocify Founder Jeff Solomon (Part 1)

Jeff is an English major who successfully bootstrapped a SaaS company with Services. The company eventually exited at a $130M valuation. Wonderful perspective from a non-technical founder on building a tech startup to success. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning and introduce yourself and Velocify to our audience.

Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10M: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 1)

We very often get questions on whether non-technical founders can build tech companies. David’s story is a really interesting one that touches many aspects of the 1Mby1M methodology. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Catching Up On Readings: AI Market 2022

Gartner forecasts the AI software market will grow 21.3% to $62.5 billion in 2022 and that the top five use case categories for AI software spending in 2022 will be knowledge management, virtual assistants, autonomous vehicles, digital workplace, and crowdsourced data. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.