1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Kyle Asman, Managing Director at Backswing Ventures (Part 1)

Kyle Asman is Managing Director at Backswing Ventures, a firm that has a non-Unicorn investment thesis. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get acquainted. Tell us about your background and also about Backswing Ventures.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Virtual Company to Scale

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. There’s been some controversy around whether virtual teams scale. Taso Du Val, CEO of Toptal, scaled a sizeable business using a virtual team. Read this interview from 2015 to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Unique Vintage with a Paycheck

If you haven’t already, please study our freeBootstrapping courseand the Investor Introductions page. Katie Echeverry, CEO and Founder of Unique Vintage, had a pharmaceutical sales job that she used to bootstrap with a paycheck for 5 years, before quitting to go full-time with her business. Here is our conversation from 2015. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start

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Catching Up On Readings: Digital Health 150

This report from CB Insights ranks 150 of the most promising digital health startups in the world. This year’s winning startups are working on interoperability and data integration, home care and monitoring, AR/VR in healthcare, and hybrid care. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Squirro CEO Dorian Selz (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Do you have a bunch of customers who are using you across three of your use cases? Dorian Selz: Across two and, in one case, across three use cases. Sramana Mitra: That’s all in financial services? Dorian Selz: Predominantly in financial services.

597th Roundtable Recording on December 15, 2022

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

January 19 – 598th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 598th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, January 19, 2023, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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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Roundtable Recap: December 15 – Do You Have a FUNDABLE Business?

During this week’s roundtable, we had four presentations spanning a variety of projects. Art of Headshots We first had Carlos Taylhardat from Vancouver, Canada, pitch Art of Headshots, a business already in some revenue, and therefore validated. Carlos will need to assess whether he can and wants to raise funding for it. Jamuun Next, we

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