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Thursday, August 18 – 317th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 317th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 18, 2016, 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 to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any
Getting to Velocity: TeePublic Founder Adam Schwartz (Part 2)
Adam Schwartz: While all this was happening, the woman I was working with had some interaction with that PR agency. After exhanging ideas, we came upon the pain point of being a sustainable fashion designer. There was a sustainable fashion movement. A lot of people in fashion wanted to make sustainable choices, but everything that came after making those
Bootstrapping Using Services to $12 Million: Square Root CEO Chris Taylor (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What year did you start selling products as opposed to just services? Chris Taylor: We started that shift in 2010. The journey was a much longer one that I expected. We were running at our typical parent consulting margins of 20% to 40% depending on the project and the year. We decided that year
Bootstrapping Using Services to $12 Million: Square Root CEO Chris Taylor (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: What year was this when you were the only employee? Chris Taylor: 2006. That’s how it started. For the first couple of years, I did a lot of different projects around the auto industry and also for a lot of startups out in the West Coast. Sramana Mitra: You were consulting at that
August 18 – 317th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 317th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 18, 2016, 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 to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any
316th Roundtable Recording On August 4, 2016: With Bryce Roberts, OATV and Indie.vc
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:
Roundtable Recap: August 4 – Alternatives to Traditional Venture Capital with Bryce Roberts, Indie VC
During this week’s roundtable, our guest was Bryce Roberts, Managing Director, O’Reilly AlphaTech Ventures (OATV), and Founder, Indie.vc. We discussed the issues with the venture capital financing model, and explored alternatives. ADDVentures First up pitching, Alina Shcherbinina from St. Petersburg, Russia, shared ADDventures, an adventure travel planning service. I gave her extensive feedback on the
Bootstrapping Using Services to $12 Million: Square Root CEO Chris Taylor (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. You know that we believe in the Bootstrapping Using Services methodology quite firmly. Here’s yet another story of how and why it works. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what