620th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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

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Roundtable Recap: October 5 – School-Driven GTM

During this week’s roundtable, we discussed two school-driven GTM strategies.

Eduberance

First, Niraj Harlalka in Ahmedabad, India, pitched Eduberance, a vernacular EdTech venture for Tier 2 and 3 cities in India.

My Tailor

Next, we had Davron Williams in Lagos, Nigeria, pitching My Tailor, a fashion marketplace.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Cloud Stocks: Oracle Stumbles, but Remains Focused on AI

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) recently reported its first quarter results that failed to impress the market. The miss in the revenue performance and outlook sent the stock falling 9% in the after-hours trading session.

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Building a Fashion E-commerce Business and Surviving Covid: Go Dash Dot CEO Hannah Fastov (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: That brings us to end of 2017. What kind of revenues were you tracking at?

Hannah Fastov: Close to a million. At this time, most of our revenue was coming in from our wholesale business but we were doing over $250,000 on our website. When we saw what was working in advertising, then we were able to put a bit more into our advertising and use our profits to reinvest back.

Sramana Mitra: What are the highlights of 2018?

Best of Bootstrapping: The Bootstrapping to Exit Path

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Over the last decade and more, I’ve had the privilege of working with a large number of bootstrapped entrepreneurs. These include self-financed companies and also modestly capitalized startups that operate in a capital-efficient manner applying the principles of bootstrapping. [You can take our free Bootstrapping Course to review these.]

For our Seed Capital series of podcasts and blog interviews, I’ve interviewed hundreds of investors, especially micro-VCs and angels who are playing in the early stage game.

I’ve asked all of them the following questions:

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620th 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 620th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 5, 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!   

620th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 20 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 620th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 20 minutes, on Thursday, October 5, 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!

Building a Fashion E-commerce Business and Surviving Covid: Go Dash Dot CEO Hannah Fastov (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me about traffic for the Shopify website. What strategy did you follow to drive traffic?

Hannah Fastov: After we launched our Shopify website, we started to engage with a digital advertising agency. I worked closely with them to develop this strategy of how we are going to get people to our website. We focused on Instagram and Facebook, more Facebook at that time. What we learned is that, like you mentioned earlier, who our customer was. It’s so important to define your demographic. For us, we felt like we were all over the place.