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345th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Eric Frenkiel, MemSQL

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 22nd 2017

Eric Frenkiel, co-founder and CEO of MemSQL, discusses his journey from pre-IPO Facebook to YCombinator to a thriving In-Memory database company that has successfully navigated a fat startup path.

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296th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Venky Balasubramanian, Plivo

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 22nd 2017

Venky Balasubramanian, co-founder of Plivo, along with his partner, has achieved the amazing feat of growing a relatively fast growth business to well over $10 million in revenue with just $2M in Angel financing. What’s even more impressive is that they have done this with a convertible note, first $250K from angel investors in India, followed by $1.75M from investors in the Bay Area. The company operates in the US-India mode, and for those of you working in that style, many important lessons are discussed.

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308th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Jeremy Young, Tanga Network

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 22nd 2017

Jeremy Young, CEO of Tanga Network, which has bootstrapped a ~$30M a year affiliate marketplace. It’s a Groupon-like business, but with much more sustainable unit economics and business practices. Very interesting discussion on how and why!

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355th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures

Posted on Tuesday, Aug 22nd 2017

Daniel Gulati, Principal and Head of Seed Investment Practice at Comcast Ventures, discusses e-commerce startup trends and what can and cannot be venture financed at this stage, and why.

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276th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Pallav Nadhani, FusionCharts

Posted on Thursday, Aug 10th 2017

Pallav Nadhani, CEO and Cofounder at FusionCharts, is someone I have known for a long time, and he will always have a special place in my heart as a young entrepreneur from Calcutta, where I was born and raised. Pallav has bootstrapped an $8 million a year product company from Calcutta, and we discuss the philosophical question “Is growth at all costs desirable?” I encourage you all to think about this question amidst the Unicorn mania raging in our industry today.

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337th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Nevin Shetty, Blueprint Registry

Posted on Thursday, Aug 10th 2017

Nevin Shetty, CEO of Blueprint Registry, did TechStars last year, and we discuss some strategies for getting into YCombinator and TechStars, the two high quality seed fund accelerators that are worth going through. Note, there are very few among the 7,500+ accelerators out there that are worth parting with 7-10% equity for.

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344th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Girish Rowjee, Greytip Software

Posted on Thursday, Aug 10th 2017

Girish Rowjee, Co-Founder and CEO of Greytip Software, discusses his long journey selling HR and Payroll software to the Indian SMEs. Greytip is one of the two successful SaaS companies in India who have managed to penetrate the mid-market.

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294th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Venkat Viswanathan, LatentView Analytics

Posted on Thursday, Aug 10th 2017

Venkat Vishwanathan, Founder and Chairman of LatentView Analytics, discusses the trends of the industry, in particular, the Do It For Me trend we’re seeing in the space.

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347th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Allan Wille, Klipfolio

Posted on Monday, Aug 7th 2017

Allan Wille, President and CEO at Klipfolio, discusses his long journey from a bootstrapped business to a venture funded, higher growth company with 8,000+ customers.

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343rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Eyal Levy, Yogibo

Posted on Monday, Aug 7th 2017

Eyal Levy, Co-founder and CEO of Yogibo, shares his lessons from the trenches building a niche online-offline brand that started with a set of bean bags. It’s a charming and very informative interview.

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340th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Christian Vanek, SurveyGizmo

Posted on Monday, Aug 7th 2017

Christian Vanek, CEO and Co-founder of SurveyGizmo, has bootstrapped the company to $13 million and is forecasting $26 million within a year with no external funding. We had a candid discussion that was both inspiring and enlightening.

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318th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Shane Evans, Scrapinghub

Posted on Monday, Aug 7th 2017

Shane Evans is Founder of Scrapinghub, a virtual company with 5M Euro in revenue and 132 people. They have employees in 43 countries and operate 100% virtually.

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354th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Mark Dorsey, Bonanza

Posted on Thursday, Jul 20th 2017

Mark Dorsey, VP of Business Development and Co-founder at Bonanza, discusses how the company found its unique angle to break into a group of sellers looking for specific solutions. The company has ONLY raised $1M in funding and has delivered over $75M in revenues. Great story.

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357th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With David Ciccarelli, Voices.com

Posted on Thursday, Jul 20th 2017

David Ciccarelli, Founder and CEO at Voices.com, has scaled a two-sided marketplace to $20 million in net revenue and discusses his inspiring journey.

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351st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Nilay Banker, Inspyrus

Posted on Thursday, Jul 20th 2017

Nilay Banker, Founder & CEO at Inspyrus, takes us through his wonderful bootstrapping using services story, along with nuances in business model innovations.

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