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Today’s 574th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, May 5, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!
Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the sales side. How did you leverage the Citrix channel to reach the customer base? Simon Taylor: I was in my late 20s. I flew to Fort Lauderdale where the Citrix headquarters was. I walked in and just said I wanted to talk to the Alliances team. I was introduced
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do some case studies of companies that you’ve invested in that you’re passionate about everything. As you talk through them, talk about what they’re doing. Also, talk about at what stage and in what condition you encountered this company. What was it about that situation that made you write your check? Julie
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. I would like to encourage bootstrapping entrepreneurs to start thinking about certain investors as bootstrapping partners. These investors, typically, LIKE capital efficient businesses. They do not want to force feed capital into companies, unlike certain larger funds. Their fund sizes are small, and they are set
Sramana Mitra: There is a lot of IP that didn’t quite get anywhere. SuccessFactors is a company that was built exactly how you did it. Lars Daalgard bought the IP at a Redwood City auction and repurposed it. This is a way of building companies if you can locate IP that has value. Simon Taylor:
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 574th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, May 5, 2022, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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
Julie Lein: What we want to see is execution. You may not have a full-fledged product yet. You may not have everything figured out, but you’re doing things to attract attention. You’re doing things to move the customer feedback forward. That’s what we get impressed about at pre-seed. The definition has changed. It’s typically that