277th Roundtable Recording On September 24, 2015

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You sell apparel through them or shoes? Katie Echeverry: Apparel. Sramana Mitra: That’s awesome actually. Katie Echeverry: It is. I really knew nothing about wholesale. They were so patient with me with all the terminologies. I remember saying, “What’s EDI?” They were very patient and have taught me a lot. I couldn’t have

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Roundtable Recap: September 24 – Five Promising Entrepreneurs

During this week’s roundtable, we had a full roster of very interesting pitches and promising concepts. CallBikes First up, Sai Prasad Somayajula from Toronto, Canada, pitched CallBikes, a crowdsourced delivery service for Indian cities whereby people who own bikes would perform delivery jobs on an on-demand basis, orchestrated by an Uber-like app. Like many entrepreneurs

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277th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 277th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 24, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: At what point did you introduce alternate channels like eBay and Amazon? Katie Echeverry: I brought eBay into the mix in 2003. We were doing so well in 2006 to 2007 that I stopped, because I couldn’t manage two platforms. This was before there were a lot of connector tools that can keep

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Do you remember what your revenue level was in 2007? Katie Echeverry: About $100,000. Sramana Mitra: For the year? Katie Echeverry: Maybe a little bit more. We got our first space to accommodate the Internet business, but people were coming in off the street wanting to shop. We made a little showroom. Within six months,

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What happened in year one and year two? What kind of numbers did you do in year one and year two? Katie Echeverry: I think I did about $3,000 in my first year, and then $6,000 the next year. Every year, I doubled. Sramana Mitra: In year three, you still have your pharmaceutical job,

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck: Katie Echeverry, CEO of Unique Vintage (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Katie had a pharmaceutical sales job that she used to bootstrap with a paycheck for 5 years, before quitting to go full-time with her business, Unique Vintage. More stories like this can be found in my Bootstrapping With A Paycheck book.

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