294th Roundtable Recording On Feb. 18, 2016: With LatentView Founder Venkat Viswanathan

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: RJ Metrics CEO Robert Moore (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What were your metrics when you were putting this round together? What kind of monthly revenue run rate did you have at that time? Robert Moore: At that time, we were less than a million in revenue. That would translate to something to the order of a hundred customers, or just below a hundred. We

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Roundtable Recap: February 18 – Spotlight on Analytics

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Venkat Vishwanathan, Founder and Chairman of LatentView Analytics. We discussed the trends of the industry, in particular, the Do It For Me trend we’re seeing in the space. Peakfoqus As for the pitches, first up, Minda Aguhob from San Francisco, California, pitched Peakfoqus, a safety app

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Bootstrapping an Education Company: Tod Browndorf, CEO of Coggno (Part 2)

Tod Browndorf: I ended up moving back to California. I went into a consulting business with a friend of mine. He was basically in high-end contingent workforce business. This is in the late 90s. We placed all sorts of different types of contingent folks inside companies. As a result, we placed instructional designers into companies that were looking

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294th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 294th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 18, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here  to join.

294th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 294th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 18, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: RJ Metrics CEO Robert Moore (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: During that first 18 months, did you figure out that e-commerce was going to be your top segment? Robert Moore: We did. E-commerce is a really good fit for what we can do because customers tend to come back and buy more than once. We always say that the best customers for us

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Bootstrapping an Education Company: Tod Browndorf, CEO of Coggno (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Tod has built an interesting online education company focused on specific niche course types. Read on to learn more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

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