Bootstrapping Using Services and Piggybacking from Australia: StoreConnect CEO Mikel Lindsaar (Part 1)

Mikel has built a services company in Australia and spawned six SaaS products out of it. One of them, StoreConnect, is a terrific Bootstrapping by Piggybacking story on top of Salesforce.com. He has exited four of the apps and expects to grow StoreConnect to $100M+ in revenue.

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?

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Solo Entrepreneur Building a Venture Scale EdTech Company from India: Cuemath Founder Manan Khurma (Part 1)

Manan’s professor parents in Amritsar didn’t want him to be an entrepreneur. Now, he is changing the trajectory of Math education around the globe by leveraging an underused workforce: stay-at-home moms with strong mathematics background in India. Brilliant story!

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?

7 Udemy Courses on How To Build an EdTech Startup

Online learning has exploded in popularity over the last decade. In Covid, the field has found a tremendous force multiplier.

Many founders are now turning to online education for startup ideas. Here’s why: it can be extremely profitable because online courses do not require physical classrooms, startup costs are more affordable and startup time frames are shorter. The ability to scale fast makes this space very attractive for new ventures.

556th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Seong Kim, Chegg

Seong Kim, Corporate Strategy & Development for Chegg Inc., discusses exit strategy within EdTech.

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Achieve3000 CEO Stuart Udell (Part 1)

McGraw Hill has just acquired Achieve3000. Stuart is an EdTech veteran who discusses the pre-K-12 literacy gap, personalized learning, as well as open opportunities in B-to-C education models driven by Covid.

Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about your own background and introduce us to the company. Let’s get acquainted.

7 Udemy Courses on How To Build an Online Learning Startup

Online learning has exploded in popularity over the last decade. In Covid, the field has found a tremendous force multiplier.

How to Build and Monetize a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog: Introduction

I started blogging on Technology Entrepreneurship in April 2005. The Internet was different then. There was no Smartphone. Social Media was just starting. Facebook and LinkedIn were new concepts.

Today, in 2021, building and monetizing a Technology Entrepreneurship Blog requires a very different strategy than the one I started with.

In this multi-part series, I will lay out a fully fleshed out roadmap of how to do so with contemporary tools.

Thought Leaders in Online Education: Brian Kibby, CEO of Modern Campus (Part 1)

Brian discusses a gigantic white space in continuing education that colleges and universities have left open. Modern Campus is trying to address this gap, among other things. Very interesting conversation.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Modern Campus.

512th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Betsy Corcoran, EdSurge

Betsy Corcoran, Co-founder of EdSurge, joins me for a lively discussion on EdTech.

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