552nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 552nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, November 4, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

552nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 20 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 552nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 20 minutes, on Thursday, November 4, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: ARR is now your business model right? Lloyed Lobo: We look at it as ARR. For every year a company does R&D, they pay us. It’s recurring. Although we take a percentage, it’s very consistent with how much R&D they do. That’s how we model it out.  Sramana Mitra: How many customers is

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Thursday, November 4 – 552nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 552nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 4, 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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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How did you manage the early phase where you had to stay afloat to get paid? Lloyed Lobo: With the help of loans, houses bank loans, credit cards, and very lean teams. Sramana Mitra: How many were you? Lloyed Lobo: When we started, it was just me and my co-founder. Then there was

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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let me probe one thing here. When you were doing this manual customer servicing, was it more of a rule-based engine than pure AI? Lloyed Lobo: First, it was fully manual. The rules-based engine was the Wizard-of-Oz MVP. It looks like technology but, on the backend, humans are doing it. There are two

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Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In 2018, are you still self-financed? Sarva Srinivasan: Yes. At the end of 2018, we did a Series A.  Sramana Mitra: How much did you raise? Sarva Srinivasan: $10 million.

Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You have a wonderful positioning because anything that has a compliance angle to it has a very mission-critical purchase cycle. You must have experienced pretty high-velocity customer building. Sarva Srinivasan: That’s correct. In parallel, we started building EZOPS. As part of our engagement, we were talking with the clients and their challenges. Oftentimes,

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