581st Roundtable Recording on June 30, 2022

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Roundtable Recap: June 30 – Capital Intensive Ventures Have a Hard Time Getting Off the Ground

During this week’s roundtable, Kasie Hills from Knoxville, Iowa, pitched Hybrid Health Properties, a largely brick and mortar venture concept that requires a lot of capital to get off the ground.

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Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup with a Paycheck to Exit: Jay Perkins, Co-founder of Kettlebell Kings (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do? You said you started a company on the BigCommerce platform?

Jay Perkins: I started a business called Kettlebell Kings while I was still employed at BigCommerce. Kettlebells are basically fitness equipment. Along with my co-founders, we would hold meetings for a year and a half leading up to when we formally launched. We knew we wanted to start a business.

We were like-minded, but we didn’t know what we wanted to sell. We would kick around ideas. We eventually decided on kettlebells. There just weren’t a lot of companies focused on building a product and lifestyle brand. We just went for it.

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Colors: Yellow Spring II

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and I request you to spend a minute or two deeply meditating on it. I urge you to watch your feelings, thoughts, reactions to the piece, and write what comes to you, what thoughts it triggers, in the dialog area. Let us see what stimulation this interaction yields. For today – Yellow Spring II

Yellow Spring II | Sramana Mitra, 2020 | Watercolor, Pastel, Brush Pen | 9  x 12, On Paper

Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup with a Paycheck to Exit: Jay Perkins, Co-founder of Kettlebell Kings (Part 1)

There are roll-ups of e-commerce brands going on right now. This case study delves into one such that has exited into a roll-up effort.

Jay Perkins currently runs Living.Fit which produces digital workouts, fitness education courses, and fitness equipment.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

Cloud Stocks: Analysis of Zoom’s Acquisition of Solvvy

According to a recent report, the global video conferencing market is estimated to grow at 11% CAGR from $6.9 billion in 2022 to $14.6 billion by 2029. Online video conferencing player Zoom Video Communications (Nasdaq: ZM) meanwhile continues to try to diversify its offerings beyond video conferencing to enter the contact center market. After a failed attempt at an acquisition last year, it recently acquired a contact center player to make its presence felt in the industry.

Solo Student Entrepreneur to $5M: David Liu, CEO of Deltapath (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: When did the Japan hospital deal happen?

David Liu: This was around 2014. It started in 2012. It was a pretty long cycle. With the funding, we opened up our Japan office. We hired five people.

Sramana Mitra: Was this a use case that you were then going to sell to other hospitals?

David Liu: Yes. We wanted to become the de-facto standard. We started doing other public hospitals. As time goes by, we integrate with a lot more IoT devices like sensors and radars. We basically work with the entire ecosystem. We form a whole ecosystem of partners that help us to make our solution even stronger.

581st Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 581st FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 30, 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!