363rd Roundtable Recording On August 10, 2017: With Swati Chaturvedi, Propel(x)

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Roundtable Recap: August 10 – What Angels Are Looking For At Propel(x)

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Swati Chaturvedi, Co-founder and CEO at Propel(x), an online platform where entrepreneurs are connected to angels. Swati and I discussed some of the key trends of the seed financing eco-system as viewed from Propel(x). One of my observations is that we’re in 2017. Lots of stuff

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Bootstrapping from the UK to Over $10 Million: Roger Hale, Co-Founder of Linguamatics (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What’s the next major strategic move in the company’s evolution? Roger Hale: I’m not sure there was an inflection point around that time. We were continuing to develop the product. We had customers. They were quite demanding customers. They wanted new features in the product. There was a lot of work just to

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363rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 363rd FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, August 10, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

363rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 363rd FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, August 10, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping from the UK to Over $10 Million: Roger Hale, Co-Founder of Linguamatics (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to build a product that you could service the pharmaceutical industry with? Roger Hale: The business was formed in 2001, but we started in 2002. We immediately started working on the product. We had some prototypes available within the year. We , in fact, sold our first

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Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What did this $21 million, which you raised, enable you to do that you couldn’t have done organically? John Pope: Not all of it was direct. We had some secondary in there. Out of respect to the guy who moved on, I won’t say exactly how much. The funding that we used as

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Bootstrapping from the UK to Over $10 Million: Roger Hale, Co-Founder of Linguamatics (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year did you start Linguamatics? Roger Hale: In 2001, right after the dot-com bubble. I had always been interested in starting a company. I don’t really like working for other people. The key moment in starting Linguamatics was SRI deciding to wind down and shut down its Cambridge lab. We felt that

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