What is the Probability of Raising Funds for Your Startup?

Learn the probability of raising funds for your startup. The One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) virtual accelerator teaches entrepreneurs about all of the nuances of bootstrapping your startup. We believe in the Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later mantra. Once you’re ready, we will get you in front of investors. We will also get you ready for investors.

Interested in getting some help with your funding strategy? Apply to win a one-year scholarship to the 1Mby1M Premium program, sponsored by DataStax, valued at $1000. Check out The DataStax – 1Mby1M Startup Challenge.

Watch – Learn — APPLY – Submit Your Application by October 28, 2021.

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Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Homeroots CEO Gil Bar-Lev (Part 1)

Gil discusses wholesale e-commerce and its complexities. This is an important interview to read for e-commerce retailers who’re looking to buy efficiently, as well as run their businesses in a zero-logistics mode.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Homeroots.

From Student Entrepreneur to a $15 Million Revenue Ultralight Business: Stephanie Madesh, CEO of Kalon Clothing (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You were finding all these levers at the right moment. Timing is really hard to get, but when you get it right, it works really well. What kind of revenue level were you at in 2015?

Stephanie Madesh: We would have been at $3.5 million.

Sramana Mitra: How many people now?

Stephanie Madesh: 12 employees.

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Catching Up On Readings: IPO Momentum

This feature from Nasdaq covers the strong IPO momentum in the first three quarters of the year 2021 so far wherein 560 companies have listed raising $136 billion. Q3 accounted for 147 listings raising over $29 billion. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

From Student Entrepreneur to a $15 Million Revenue Ultralight Business: Stephanie Madesh, CEO of Kalon Clothing (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Were you selling this under private label, or was it still retail?

Stephanie Madesh: We were selling it as the Kalon brand. It was our own design. We were still a boutique. But if you can imagine Forever21 when they started, they had their own label and all the labels that they carried.

Sramana Mitra: It’s very common in the fashion business. They start with selling other people’s brands and then pick up categories in which they offer their own brands. Your strategy is exactly in line with what retail companies do.

From Student Entrepreneur to a $15 Million Revenue Ultralight Business: Stephanie Madesh, CEO of Kalon Clothing (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happened in 2010?

Stephanie Madesh: We doubled that year. We were at the $300,000 level. That was two-fold. We had started a print-on-demand. That had its own website. That drove the other $150,000 in sales.

Sramana Mitra: What were you printing on demand? T-shirts?

549th Roundtable Recording with Jukka Alanen, PagerDuty

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Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Kristen Valdes, CEO of b.well Connected Health (Part 5)

Kristen Valdes: During that time, I had given birth to my second child Bailey. She was born with a very significant auto-immune condition. She had a near fatal incident because two EMR systems couldn’t communicate with one another. At that point, I realized that it didn’t matter how much expertise I had gained in healthcare. I knew how to navigate the system. I couldn’t do it on behalf of my own family.

That’s when I became the Excel-plotting mom trying to figure out if she could have been diagnosed faster, could we have avoided this near-death complication if we had all the information at our fingertips. I left and I launched b.well. We need to take the friction and fragmentation out of healthcare and deliver seamless and simple user experiences.