During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Julie Lein, Managing Partner at Urban Innovation Fund discussing Pre-Seed and Seed funding in companies focused on the betterment of cities. IdeaMySpace As for entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Sidhartha Domathoti from Hyderabad, India, pitch IdeaMySpace, a vertically integrated business for designing and building homes.
Sramana Mitra: What was the new idea? Kashyap Deorah: On-demand commerce was called hyperlocal. I was fascinated with the Stripe and Twilio API businesses. In retail and e-commerce, what shovels can I build? What became clear was on-demand commerce is about the ability to fulfill things right here right now. The proposition is ingrained in
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Dean Guida, CEO of Infragistics, has a real passion for the elegance, simplicity, and beauty of software development. He has built a company celebrating these values. Sramana Mitra: We will start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and
Sramana Mitra: Did you have the same marketing strategy? Jonathan Foltz: Yes. Our expertise was definitely Facebook and Instagram. You can do this with influencer marketing. We can go from $10,000 a day to over $300,000 in less than a week. The scalability is unparalleled with Facebook and Instagram. Sramana Mitra: I guess there are
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Today’s 566th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 3, 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!
Sramana Mitra: What was the name of this project? Kashyap Deorah: Chalo. Sramana Mitra: How long was that? Kashyap Deorah: We sold the company in less than a year. After the acquisition, some of us stayed at OpenTable. I left after two years. One important moment there was that OpenTable was a public company. That’s
Sramana Mitra: What product were you selling? Jonathan Foltz: We were selling LED shoes. We could have kept on going. Then we had a problem in China. They didn’t do the proper paper work and they had batteries. They had to recall them and send them back. It was a huge problem. We could have