Today’s 299th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 24, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 299th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 24, 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
Sramana Mitra: The mode in which you’ve done this is actually very interesting. I find it quite fascinating. What else is interesting in the story? Angie Stocklin: We tested our hand in drop-ship businesses. Sramana Mitra: That’s a very important point. Angie Stocklin: Even when we were still in our home, we tested drop-ship businesses.
Sramana Mitra: What kind of scale did each of these businesses reach? Are we talking million of dollars in revenue? Angie Stocklin: To be honest, it was hundreds of thousands. A couple of the brands were in the tens of thousands. Anything that was over a million, we kept. Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit
Sramana Mitra: Tell me more about other businesses. How much did you buy the reading glasses for? How did that ramp? Angie Stocklin: We ended up just buying a domain. It was not a great domain. It was readingglassesshopper.com. It’s a mouthful. I think we purchased it for $2,500. We were able to leverage a
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 299th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 24, 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
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ashu Garg, General Partner at Foundation Capital, who outlined the top trends driving startups and venture capital from his firm’s perspective. The trends are primarily focused on Machine Learning and Marketplaces, including financial marketplaces. Ashu also elaborated on his thoughts on Marketing Technologies, and the areas