1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Bill Baumel, Managing Director of Ohio Innovation Fund (Part 1)

Bill Baumel, Managing Director at Ohio Innovation Fund, is one of the pioneers of the Ohio startup ecosystem.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some introduction to where you are with your work with Ohio Innovation Fund. What’s happening in Ohio as an ecosystem?

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Cloud Stocks: Veeva Targets $13 Billion TAM

Pleasanton, California-based Veeva (NYSE: VEEV) recently reported its first-quarter results that continued to outpace market expectations. The company crossed a major milestone as it ended the quarter with an annualized revenue rate of over $2 billion. The market is very pleased with Veeva, and its stock jumped 13% in the after-hours trading session.

Bootstrapping Using Facebook Ads to $5M: Dow Janes Co-founders Laurie-Anne King and Britt Baker (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Britt, get us to the point where you launched Dow Janes. How did you get yourselves off the ground?

Britt Baker: It’s the fall of 2019. I have another job at that time that I decided was not my passion. I’d be going to dinner parties and cocktail parties and everyone would ask when’s the next Dow Janes meeting. I knew that Laurie-Anne had started an online business before. I called Laurie-Anne. She was about eight months pregnant.

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Cloud Stocks: Nutanix Stumbles on Supply Chain Issues

According to a recent report by Emergen Research, the global Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) market size is estimated to grow at 26.8% to reach $48.17 billion by 2028 from $ 7.34 billion in 2020. The growth in the industry is driven by the rising demand for data security and disaster recovery solutions. Nutanix (Nasdaq: NTNX), recently reported its third quarter results that continued to surpass market expectations, but the weak outlook was not looked upon favorably by the stock market.

577th Roundtable Recording with Chandrashekar Kupperi, Peaceful Progress Fund

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

577th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Chandrashekar Kupperi, Peaceful Progress Fund

Chandrashekar Kupperi is General Partner at Peaceful Progress Fund, an angel fund in India. We have some very interesting discussions on consumer startups in India, especially the ones targeting lower economic strata consumers.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Linguamatics to Over $10M from the UK

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

Cambridge, England is a great place for high-end technical talent. This story from 2017 traces the journey of a group of such talented people with core expertise in Natural Language Processing, including Co-founder Roger Hale, and how they turned their expertise into a robust, profitable business.

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

Roger Hale: I think I had quite a normal upbringing. I grew up in Yorkshire in the northeast of England. My mother came from a family with a local manufacturing business. She also ran a restaurant for a while. My father was an academic. He was a mathematician. He had actually been a code breaker and worked with some of the very first computers as part of that. I didn’t obviously know that until later.

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Bootstrapping Using Facebook Ads to $5M: Dow Janes Co-founders Laurie-Anne King and Britt Baker (Part 1)

Facebook gets a tremendous bad rap for its many nefarious side effects. Numerous small businesses, however, have been possible because of Facebook’s incredible Ad engine.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What is the story leading up to this? We’ll do Laurie-Anne as well in that mode.