The Startup Velocity Question: Is it the Market?

Entrepreneurs often bet on markets that are yet to develop. Good entrepreneurs often create new markets. Steve Jobs CREATED the smartphone market. VCs bet on such bets.

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The Startup Velocity Question: Is it the Product?

Product and Technology are not the same.  While technology failures are difficult to recover from, product issues can be addressed. Often, once a startup starts to engage with the market, it develops a more sophisticated understanding of the market’s needs. Features, functions, integrations, APIs – a lot of input comes into the company through customer

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The Startup Velocity Question: Is it Technology?

At the heart of most tech companies is, of course, technology. Today, the market is particularly frothy around Artificial Intelligence. AI is a technology that is notorious for not working as envisioned.

The Startup Velocity Question: What Hinders Acceleration in VC Funded Companies?

I have been running 1Mby1M since 2010. I find myself saying to entrepreneurs ad nauseam that VCs want to invest in startups that can go from zero to $100 million in revenue in 5 to 7 years. Startups that do not have what it takes to achieve velocity should not be venture funded. Experienced VCs,

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Pura Vida to $130M

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke in 2020, Pura Vida CEO Co-founder Griffin Thall and his partner had turned an investment of $200 into a $130 million company. Amazing execution! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born

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Long Bootstrapped Journey into Cutting-Edge Generative AI: Jeff Kuo, Founder of Ragic (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Yes, it is tough. I have a slightly different kind of question as my last set of questions for you. No code, right now is a very attractive terminology in the industry, and part of it is coming from the fact that AI is automating everything, including coding. So no-code, AI-generated software is the future

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Long Bootstrapped Journey into Cutting-Edge Generative AI: Jeff Kuo, Founder of Ragic (Part 6)

So I wanna double click down on both of those marketing and go-to-market strategies: Google AdWords and Facebook advertising. So let’s do Google AdWords. Are you trying to do lead generation on no-code platforms? Jeff Kuo: No-code platform is only a tiny portion of our keyword targeting. We target a lot of different types of application

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April 18 – 637th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 637th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 18, 2024, 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,

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