Roundtable Recap: February 24 – Further Discussions on Indian Venture Capital

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Krishnakumar Natarajan, Co-founder of Mela Ventures, and former CEO of MindTree, discussing the Indian Venture ecosystem. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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565th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 565th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 24, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Bootstrapping Using Services from Helsinki: Juha Lehtonen, CEO of FA Solutions (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Where did the inbound interest come from? What countries? Juha Lehtonen: We currently have clients in 17 countries. We get contacts from the Baltics, UK, Switzerland, and the Middle East. Sramana Mitra: They come to you and you sell through online touchpoints. You don’t have to go visit people. Juha Lehtonen: Yes.

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Sramana Mitra: Was there any technology element to what you were providing? Haysam Ali: Not at first. While providing consulting services, we were able to build a CRM that provides intelligence into the data that we collect for them. That was then used to get other clients. Telefonica was the main case that opened the

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If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. CEO Josh Millet had bootstrapped Criteria to almost $5 million in revenue before raising funding. 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? Josh Millet: I

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Bootstrapping Using Services from Helsinki: Juha Lehtonen, CEO of FA Solutions (Part 3)

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564th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Rahul Chandra, Arkam Ventures

Rahul Chandra, Managing Director at Arkam Ventures, is a veteran of the Indian Venture Capital industry. This discussion spans historical context to current Unicorn mania. Great analysis!