296th Roundtable Recording On March 3, 2016: With Plivo Cofounder Venky Balasubramanium

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Roundtable Recap: March 3 – How To Scale A Company With Minimum Dilution

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Venky Balasubramanian, co-founder of Plivo. Venky and his partner have achieved the amazing feat of growing a relatively fast growth business to well over $10 million in revenue with just $2M in angel financing. What’s even more impressive is that they have done this with a

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Houston: Identity Automation CEO James Litton (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Was K-12 also consulting services and implementing identity management solutions kind of projects? James Litton: Yes. Keep in mind that as we were doing this, we were doing projects for all types of organizations. It’s just that the majority of them was K-12. Sramana Mitra: The business, however, were these projects? You were

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296th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 296th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, March 3, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.  

296th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 20 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 296th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 3, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping Using Services From Houston: Identity Automation CEO James Litton (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: The fact that you decided to go in this direction, does this have anything to do with your background in facilities management? James Litton: No. The decision to go down this path was multi-faceted. I had known Troy since the Coca Cola days. We had stayed connected. Troy had really grown up around

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Bootstrapping Using Services From Houston: Identity Automation CEO James Litton (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You quit this job in 1990 and did something else? James Litton: I then went to work for Continental Airlines where I moved into a Systems Analyst role. This gave me experience with a very large enterprise organisation. I was in their credit management group and helped them manage their IT infrastructure. I

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Bootstrapping an IoT Company from North Carolina: Bob Witter, CEO of Device Solutions (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: This is very risky business though – trying to act venture capitalist in startups and building their products against sweat equity. That’s, business-wise, quite a risky move. Bob Witter: It’s a lot of fun. We have never had any investment dollars, so the risk is our own. We’ve taken a different approach than,

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