Sramana Mitra: Here’s a trend question. You have watched the music business for a long time. What is your analysis of the music business? We see music deals from time to time. A lot of the industry believes that you can’t make money in the music business. Can you talk about that? Steve Eskenazi: I
Sramana Mitra: From 2002 to 2008, you already had a lot of VC in the company. It’s already six years, so the VCs are starting to get antsy. How did you handle that? Scott Sellers: It was one of the most challenging aspects. We needed to change our investor base. The current investors had invested
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Online mattress is one of the hottest e-commerce category these days, and here is yet another one delivering venture-scale growth without venture capital. Tuft & Needle Co-founder JT Marino shared his story with me in 2017. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Chandrashekar Kupperi, General Partner at Peaceful Progress Fund, an angel fund in India. We had some very interesting discussions on consumer startups in India, especially the ones targeting lower economic strata consumers. T-Ora As for the pitches, up first we had Karthikeyan R. from Singapore pitch
Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to get the first product out? Scott Sellers: It always takes longer than you think, especially in the world of hardware and chip design. The first product was released in the early part of 2005. It was a good solid three years. Sramana Mitra: Did you have
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. SproutLoud CEO Jared Shusterman bootstrapped his company with his bar mitzvah money. He shared his wonderful story with me in 2017. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of
Today’s 577th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 2, 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!
Today’s 577th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, June 2, 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!