Roundtable Recap: May 18 – Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Heidi Jannenga, Co-founder and President at WebPT, yet another scrappy entrepreneur who managed to bootstrap to over $1M ARR and THEN raised the first million in angel funding. Wonderful story! StreakHelmet As for pitches, up first Abhishek Chatrani from Chennai, India, pitched StreakHelmet, a smart helmet company that

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353rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 353rd FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 18, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

353rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 353rd FREE online 1Mby1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, May 18, 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 to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 4)

Rizwan Kassim: There’s also a term in telco called breakage. If you sell 500 minutes to someone at two cents a minute, they don’t necessarily use all 500 minutes. That helps with forward pricing. We spent a lot of time on what sort of message communicated best with first-generation Indians. We used people we knew.

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: We should probably step through that. That’s your first technology entrepreneurship, right? Rizwan Kassim: That’s the first one that hit any sort of scale. Sramana Mitra: You started that in the 2006 to 2007 period? Rizwan Kassim: The company was founded in 2006.

Thursday, May 18 – 353rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 353rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 18, 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

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In 2006 you finally graduated. What happened after that? Rizwan Kassim: I worked at a couple of companies. I did some technology consulting. I worked at a restaurant startup that was started by Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari. I was the Director of Engineering there. I was there for a few years.

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Bootstrapping a Two-Sided Marketplace to $10M: Sal Akbani, CEO of Gateway Classic Cars (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Where to from here? More of the same? Sal Akbani: More of the same. We’re also incorporating a few other items out there into the product mix. As part of one of our themes, we have partnered with a very famous NASCAR personality Kenny Wallace. We are producing a mini-series on TV and

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