Roundtable Recap: February 1 – Premature Funding Plans Never Materialize

During this week’s roundtable, we dealt with two scenarios that each need to figure out bootstrapping strategies to mitigate the lack of early stage funding.

gestr

First, we had Anthony Dobaj from Draper, Utah, pitch gestr. This discussion is a good case study for crowdfunding as a way of early bootstrapping.

Budysdilpoa

Next, Chetan Barot from Nairobi, Kenya, pitched Budysdilpoa, a super app for Kenya.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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Sramana Mitra: Now, let’s double click down on the concept of experiments. Once you were in these POC situations and started to gain some traction, what kinds of experiments are customers running?

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Building a Capital Efficient Second Venture: LiftLab CEO John Wallace (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So let’s double click down on a couple of things here. You mentioned a different dataset. So, what dataset is LiftLab using?

John Wallace: In our last company, we were essentially working with user level data, device level data, and log data. Now, we’re working with aggregated data. So we’re working with time series, and the methods are much more around econometrics. So it, it was a new data set and new algorithms.

Sramana Mitra: And what, what is the source of this data?

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Building a Capital Efficient Second Venture: LiftLab CEO John Wallace (Part 1)

Sramana Mitra: John, welcome to the show again. What are you up to these days? It looks like we talked a while ago about your previous company DataSong and you’re up to a new adventure. So, tell us about it.

John Wallace: I’ve been fortunate to be building Lift Lab for the past five years. The team had built a company with me called DataSong, which, you covered. I feel very honored and fortunate to be a second time attendee on one of these interviews.