May 7 – 484th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 484th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 7, 2020, 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

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Roundtable Recap: April 30 – Counter-cyclical Ventures in this Covid-19 World

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Nick Adams, Managing Partner and Co-founder at Differential Ventures, an enterprise focused firm. We discussed counter-cyclical ventures in this Covid-19 world. Menerva SoftwareAs for entrepreneur pitches, Geetha Ramaswamy from Chicago, Illinois, pitched Menerva Software, a software services company that is bootstrapping towards a product. C-Way Electric

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Thursday, April 30 – 483rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 483rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 30, 2020, 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

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482nd Roundtable Recording on April 23, 2020: With Garrett Goldberg, Bee Partners

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 482nd 1Mby1M Roundtable April 23, 2020: With Garrett Goldberg, Bee Partners

Bootstrapping to Exit: Imagine Easy Solutions CEO Neal Taparia (Part 6)

Neal Taparia: Then we acquired the next biggest site in the space which was called CitationMachine. Later on, we acquired the biggest international site in UK and Australia following that same playbook of building relationships to eventually lead to an acquisition. By 2016, we were reaching 30 million students across the globe, primarily in Western-educated

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Bootstrapping to Exit: Imagine Easy Solutions CEO Neal Taparia (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: In terms of the monetization strategy, it sounds like you needed advertisers through the ad networks who were going after the student demographics. Neal Taparia: That’s correct. Sramana Mitra: Were there ad networks specifically focused on that demographic or were you just working with various ad networks and finding the segment match with

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April 30 – 483rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 483rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 30, 2020, 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

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Roundtable Recap: April 23 – Discussion on Vertical Marketplaces

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Garrett Goldberg, Partner at Bee Partners. Garrett discussed his firm’s enterprise focused investment thesis, including some unique insights on SaaS-powered vertical marketplaces. The Steel Store As for entrepreneur pitches, Rajat Jain from Toronto, Canada, pitched The Steel Store, a steel marketplace. Kids Dance Revolution Next, we

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