307th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 307th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 19, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Were they willing to pay if you had a good website and if you had a company? Mikko Valimaki: We were able to get some of our very first money just by basically consulting and helping some of the first commercial users. For that, we improved the website a little bit. We tried

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year was this happening? Mikko Valimaki: This happened in 2008. Sramana Mitra: The first order of business was to get an open source product going right? Mikko Valimaki: We thought this whole thing through and we figured out that it cannot be a big enough business for us to grow this company

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May 19 – 307th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 307th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 19, 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

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Bootstrapping to $10 Million from Helsinki, Finland: Mikko Valimaki, CEO of Tuxera (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  In our effort to bring you stories from the global startup ecosystem, here we introduce you to a wonderful success story from Finland. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what

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Thursday, May 19 – 307th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 306th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 19, 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

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306th Roundtable Recording On May 12, 2016: With John Dougery, Inventus Capital

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

Roundtable Recap: May 12 – Bootstrapping With A Paycheck Works!

During this week’s roundtable, our guest was John Dougery, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Inventus Capital, a fund that is one of the earliest players in the Silicon Valley – India corridor. We discussed his firm’s investment focus, as well as reviewed the trends of the current Indian market. VOZIQ First up,1M/1M Premium member Vasudeva

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