Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Pinpoint for me the strategy for growth. Rizwan Kassim: First was having the right distribution. This is a business that was about distribution. Sramana Mitra: What was the distribution strategy? Rizwan Kassim: These cellphone shops are used to getting screwed by the carriers. Sometimes they don’t get paid commissions. Sometimes they don’t get

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May 25 – 354th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 354th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, May 25, 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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353rd Roundtable Recording On May 17, 2017: With Heidi Jannenga, WebPT

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Plus: Ultra Mobile Chief Strategy Officer Rizwan Kassim (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Let me try to understand this. At the end of the day, the value proposition that you were offering was international calling at affordable rates from anywhere in the world to anywhere in the world. Rizwan Kassim: No, it would be their US cellphone service. Instead of using Verizon or AT&T, they would

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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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