Dealing with Major Market Shifts: Aphrodite’s CEO Jonathan Foltz (Part 1)

Jonathan has had to shepherd his jewelry e-commerce venture through the pandemic first. Then came the Apple iOS battle with Facebook which has rendered small merchants ineffective on the Facebook platforms. Read how a scrappy, creative entrepreneur is managing all the curveballs thrown at him.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Ninth Wave Founder Bootstrapped Using Services

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  George Anderson, Founder and CEO of Ninth Wave, offers another case study for our very popular Bootstrapping Using Services track. 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

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4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 1)

Kashyap had early success with three of his companies, each of which had very small amounts of friends and family financing. He pretty much bootstrapped these three startups to rapid exits. His fourth startup, HyperTrack, has been a challenging journey, but he has navigated it well, and turned around the earlier setbacks over the last

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14 Courses on How To Build a Startup in the Midwest

This bundle of courses is for IT entrepreneurs who wish to start and grow a startup in the Midwest of the United States. If you are in that region, start by reviewing this course: How Investors Think About Startups in the Midwest with Sramana Mitra It will give you an inside look at the Mid-Western

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Catching Up On Readings: Cyber Security Funding

This feature from Crunchbase News looks at how the Russian invasion of Ukraine is affecting investment in the Cyber Security sector. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

565th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Krishnakumar Natarajan, Mela Ventures

Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-founder of Mela Ventures, and former CEO of MindTree, discusses the Indian Venture ecosystem.

565th Roundtable Recording with Krishnakumar Natarajan, Mela Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

March 3 – 566th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 566th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, March 3, 2022, 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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