April 27 – 605th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 605th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 27, 2023, 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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Catching Up On Readings: Startup Grind Global 2023

This feature from SFGATE covers the highlights of Startup Grind Global Conference held in Redwood City, California. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Digital Nomad Building a $5M+ E-Commerce Business: IntelligentLabs CEO Rus Hughes (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: The bulk of the business is based on doctor recommendations? Rus Hughes: I would say word of mouth. When we started, it was heavily weighted to doctors. Brand reputation is the crux of the business. More and more brands are doing it now. When we started in 2014, there was a scandal with

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Digital Nomad Building a $5M+ E-Commerce Business: IntelligentLabs CEO Rus Hughes (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to get to a million dollars in revenue? Rus Hughes: Two and a half years. Sramana Mitra: What was your inventory strategy during this period? Did you have to finance inventory? Rus Hughes: We were doing it organically. I kept my cost of living super low. We

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Roundtable Recap: April 13 – Startup Methodology Exists, Use It

During this week’s roundtable, we worked with three entrepreneurs. In advising them, I keep running into the phenomenon of reinventing the wheel and not using existing proven methodology and frameworks. Milk e-Taster First up, we had Barnali Ghatak from Kolkata, India, pitch Milk e-Taster, a technology for testing food contamination. Nudge Next, we had Reagan

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Best of Bootstrapping: Developer Entrepreneur Bootstrapped to $20M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Numerous developers around the world are turning into successful entrepreneurs. NLP Cloud Founder CTO Julien Salinas provides a textbook case study of a brilliant journey that is a highly repeatable blueprint to follow. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to $35M, Then Raised $70M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Teamwork.com Founder CEO Peter Coppinger has led a terrific vertical cloud business from Ireland and now runs a global SaaS company that is kicking ass. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of

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604th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 604th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, April 13, 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!