463rd Roundtable Recording on October 31, 2019: With Anand Rajaraman, rocketship.vc

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 463rd 1Mby1M Roundtable October 31, 2019: Anand Rajaraman, rocketship.vc

Roundtable Recap: October 31 – Quality of Startups from India is Improving Steadily

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Anand Rajaraman, Founding Partner at rocketship.vc. Anand was an early investor in Facebook. Among other things, we discussed how the quality of startups from India has been improving. Digital Parliament As for entrepreneur pitches, today we had Harsha Mukherjee from Mumbai, India, pitch Digital Parliament, a

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Bootstrapping to $33 Million: Freightwise CIO Richard Hoehn (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How much were you burning during this period? Richard Hoehn: We were running $45,000 a month for a while. You definitely need some runway.  Sramana Mitra: Where does this money come from?

463rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 463rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 31, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

463rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 463rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 31, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping to $33 Million: Freightwise CIO Richard Hoehn (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What did you have to plug into to make this happen? Based on what you’re describing, integration was involved. Can you talk a bit about what it entailed to get this client to a point where you could start charging them on a gain-share basis? Richard Hoehn: A good amount of client integration

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Bootstrapping to $33 Million: Freightwise CIO Richard Hoehn (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s get into the details. How did you launch the company? Richard Hoehn: We bootstrapped the company. Freightwise has almost no debt. The way we did it is, we loaded cash in and bootstrapped it. We made one key decision early on that we would build our platform rather than buy it.

Bootstrapping to $33 Million: Freightwise CIO Richard Hoehn (Part 1)

Freightwise is No. 2 on the Inc. 5000 for 2018. Amazing bootstrapping story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Richard Hoehn: I grew up in Switzerland. I did an apprenticeship as a machinist – the

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