Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Gryphon CEO John Wu (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: The primary pain point around which you’re positioning your solution is this parent trying to protect children. John Wu: Correct. That’s a very salient pain point that a lot of parents are facing today. Less so in terms of people concerned about their refrigerators getting hacked. Once you have our product, we let

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Thursday, October 20 – 594th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 594th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 20, 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

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an Ad Tech Company from Paris

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Europe is also facing difficult times. Entrepreneurs are its best hope. When we spoke in 2016, BidMotion Founder Daniel Nathan had built a really cool company based in Paris. Daniel is now Founder and CEO of Homa Games. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning

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Female Entrepreneur Scaling a PropTech Venture with Over $40M in Funding: PunchListUSA CEO Min Alexander (Part 2)

Min Alexander: Along the way, you realize that real estate is one of the most un-innovative spaces. When you think about early 1998 dot com burst, it did open our society and economy to the power of technology. Why is it that all of these spaces were influenced by technology like logistics and computer science,

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Gryphon CEO John Wu (Part 1)

Gryphon is a very interesting company in the B-to-C Cyber Security space. This interview discusses their go-to-market strategy and equity crowdfunding strategy in significant detail. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Gryphon.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping with Services to $12M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  You know that we believe in the Bootstrapping Using Services methodology quite firmly. Here is Square Root Founder Chris Taylor’s story from 2016 – a great example of how and why bootstrapping using services works. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.

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Female Entrepreneur Scaling a PropTech Venture with Over $40M in Funding: PunchListUSA CEO Min Alexander (Part 1)

Min tells a wonderful story of building a scaling a PropTech company with significant funding at a $100M+ valuation. 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 background?

Catching Up On Readings: FinTech 250 2022

This annual report from CB Insights lists 250 of the most promising private FinTech companies in the world that are shaping the future of B2B and B2C financial services, from payments and banking to investing and insurance. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.