549th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 549th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 7, 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!

Bootstrapping to $10 Million Using Services: Sameer Maggon, CEO of SearchStax (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What was the pricing? Sameer Maggon: The first offering that we sold was for about $10,000 a year.  Sramana Mitra: How did that business ramp? When you start off with a bootstrapping with services model, your services revenues far outpace product revenues. Gradually, it starts to tilt.

Thursday, October 7 – 549th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 549th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 7, 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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Bootstrapping to $10 Million Using Services: Sameer Maggon, CEO of SearchStax (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What go-to-market strategy are you following? Is it a SaaS product that you go to market with? Sameer Maggon: SearchStax, at a high level, is a search company. We offer Search-as-a-Service. It’s a SaaS/PaaS offering that is provided for mid-market to large enterprises on a subscription basis.  Sramana Mitra: So it’s a SaaS

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million Using Services: Sameer Maggon, CEO of SearchStax (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Excellently navigated journey! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, and in what kind of background? Sameer Maggon: I grew up in Delhi. I did my engineering in Computer Science from Pune. Then I

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548th Roundtable Recording with Lloyed Lobo, Boast.ai

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 548th 1Mby1M Roundtable with Lloyed Lobo, Boast.ai

October 7 – 549th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 549th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 7, 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: September 30 – What Works and What Doesn’t in AI Startups

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Lloyed Lobo, Co-founder and President of Boast.ai, discussing his failures and eventual success building AI startups. Wonderful conversation. Teleperson For the entrepreneur pitch, we had Jesse Hollander, from Delray Beach, Florida, pitch Teleperson. Unfortunately, as I have said repeatedly, it is impossible to raise money to

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