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Thursday, August 10 – 363rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 363rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, August 10, 2017, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/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 can register
Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: Great. How far does this bring us to? You mentioned that you went up to $25 million with no outside financing. Would these two major strategic approaches cover that 0 to $25 million journey? John Pope: That gets us to $25 million. We’ve always had a broad appeal. Our product works for 99%
Bootstrapping from the UK to Over $10 Million: Roger Hale, Co-Founder of Linguamatics (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Cambridge, England is a great place for high-end technical talent. This story traces the journey of a group of such talented people with core expertise in Natural Language Processing, and how they turned their expertise into a robust, profitable business. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the
Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: How did it impact the revenues? How long did it take for you to start producing really strong multipliers on your revenue numbers using the channel? John Pope: It had an immediate impact. We were starting from nothing back then but we’ve built a third of our business through the indirect channel. We’re
Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Let’s got into the block-by-block journey of how you got to $25 million. What were some of the first strategic moves that you made that set you up for that journey? Just walk me through the strategic process of navigating through to $25 million. John Pope: The first one was a lesson that
August 10 -363rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 363rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, August 10, 2017, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/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 can register
Bootstrap to $25 Million from Utah, Raise Money Later to Scale to $100 Million: John Pope, CEO of Jive (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Where there is something wrong is this crazy glamorization of unicorns and fundraising. That is really unhealthy and it is really destroying the entrepreneurship ecosystem. John Pope: I completely agree. In closing on that, what I didn’t want to do was have a business and then stop working hard. Maybe this will resonate
362nd Roundtable Recording On August 3, 2017: Economic Development Discussion
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