Thursday, July 29 – 540th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 540th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 29, 2021, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 6)

Ben Hodson: By the end of 2013, we were in a position where these guys would say, “Hey, we would pay for this. This is better than a lot of stuff out in the market.” We decided to take the money that we earned on our latest project RepeatSys. We had about $50,000 each. We

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What period of time did you do that mode of existence of doing consulting to pay down your debt?  Ben Hodson: That was from about 2008 to 2012. During that time, I started a bunch of smaller companies that tried different things, but I made most of my money off of consulting. None

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539th Roundtable Recording with Geoff Ralston, Y Combinator

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 539th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable with Geoff Ralston, Y Combinator

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the 2004 timeframe when you were leaving this company. When you left, what did you do? Ben Hodson: I had the entrepreneur bug. I was saying, “Oh my gosh, I really want to do another company, but I need to find a problem that I believe in and care

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Did you get the funding first before building the product or vice versa? Ben Hodson: We built the product for the funding. It would not have gotten the funding if it weren’t for the product and the first customer. We had been raising money for a year and a half. I have probably

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July 29 – 540th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 540th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 29, 2021, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your questions. Others

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Roundtable Recap: July 22 – Conversation with Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Geoff Ralston, President of Y Combinator. We had a terrific discussion on what we each are seeing in the ecosystem. Re:Mind As for our entrepreneur pitch, we had Bindu Thirupathi from Bengaluru, India, pitch Re:Mind, a wellness wearable. CultureTalk Then, 1Mby1M Premium members Theresa Agresta and

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