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.

You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

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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.

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?

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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.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Chandrashekar Kupperi, General Partner of Peaceful Progress Fund (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What are some examples of really good companies that are focused on that segment?

Chandrashekar Kupperi: There is a company which is into chocolates. They chose tier 3 and tier 4 markets because you have the big companies in tier 1 and tier 2. What this has done is has led to the increased wallet size. Another thing they’ve realized is there are certain pockets with the ability to spend. You can even have product ranges with some premium launches.

Solo Student Entrepreneur to $5M: David Liu, CEO of Deltapath (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Then what happens after 2011?

David Liu: Around 2015, we had the first investor. We had a high-net-worth individual who was interested in investing in the business.

Sramana Mitra: How did that person get involved? How did you find him?

David Liu: His son had just started a new e-commerce business and went public. He had some extra cash and wanted to invest in something related but not exactly e-commerce. He was introduced to us. We raised a million dollars.