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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Eloqua and Crowdfunded Influitive

Posted on Wednesday, Feb 22nd 2023

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Raised in an entrepreneurial home, Founder CEO Mark Organ was encouraged to become a doctor or professor and delighted his parents when he went to Northwestern to earn his PhD in neurosciences. In no time he was incubating Eloqua from within Bain and Company during the

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Thursday, February 23 – 600th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 21st 2023

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 600th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, February 23, 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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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Category Leading E-commerce Company

Posted on Tuesday, Feb 21st 2023

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  The Shoplet.com case study, as shared by Founder CEO Tony Ellison in 2014, is interesting because it illustrates how an entrepreneur bootstrapped a category leading e-commerce venture by trading off margins in favor of minimizing logistical challenges. Sramana: Tony, let’s start with the beginning of your

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Catching Up On Readings: Top 10 Breakthrough Technologies 2023

Posted on Sunday, Feb 19th 2023

This feature from MIT Technology Review compiles a list of the top ten breakthrough technologies that will change our world. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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February 23 – 600th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Saturday, Feb 18th 2023

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 600th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, February 23, 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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599th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

Posted on Saturday, Feb 18th 2023

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

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Roundtable Recap: February 16 – Two-Sided Marketplaces Don’t Work if You Boil the Ocean

Posted on Saturday, Feb 18th 2023

During this week’s roundtable, we had one pitch and another five conversations with entrepreneurs. Invest4energy We first had Phuong Skovgaard from London, UK, pitch Invest4energy, a 2-sided marketplace for funding solar panels. We discussed the need for focus and restraint. Two-sided marketplaces in all kinds of verticals and niche markets have become a key trend

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Building a PropTech Venture with a Virtual Team: Discount Lots President Paul Hersko (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Feb 17th 2023

Sramana Mitra: What is your primary use case? City dwellers wanting to buy property outside the city? Paul Hersko: Yes, I would say so. Sramana Mitra: Were you self-financing still at this point?

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