265th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 265th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

 Bootstrapping Using Services from North Carolina: Ateb CEO Frank Sheppard (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How fast were you able to course correct on that? I imagine that when you saw that things were not working out, you fired the CEO. When did that happen? Frank Sheppard: Late 2003, I believe. We were probably short of bankruptcy, but like all good entrepreneurs, we were too stupid to do

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Billion Dollar Unicorns: GoFundMe Bootstraps till the Half-Way Point

A recent Massolution report estimates the global crowdfunding segment to grow to $34.4 billion by the year 2015. Crowdfunding is estimated to have grown 167% in 2014 to raise $16.2 billion. Billion Dollar Unicorn club contender GoFundMe is a rising star within the industry.

Bootstrapping Using Services from North Carolina: Ateb CEO Frank Sheppard (Part 3)

Frank Sheppard: At that time, my spouse was still with IBM, working in the retail division. She just saw some opportunity there. We agreed to bring her on board in late 1995 to see if she can develop a lot of what we were doing for the telecom industry. We were able to do that very

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Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn in Online Real Estate: Auction.com CEO Jeff Frieden (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Given the numbers you’ve quoted in terms of houses sold, it seems to me that you should be ready to go public at this point. Is that part of the thinking? Why or why not? What’s going on from an exit point of view? Jake Seid: Our goal is to build a big company.

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Bootstrapping Using Services from North Carolina: Ateb CEO Frank Sheppard (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Let me see if I got this. You basically had a project within IBM that IBM didn’t want to pursue. You wanted to pursue it and, with IBM’s blessing, you spun it out as a separate company? Frank Sheppard: Correct. IBM had no part in the founding of that company except to say

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June 25 – 265th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 265th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 25, 2015, 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 a Billion Dollar Unicorn in Online Real Estate: Auction.com CEO Jeff Frieden (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Are the real estate agents part of this marketplace or are you working with buyers and sellers, and the brokers are out of the picture? Jeff Frieden: The brokers are in the picture. Sramana Mitra: The people who are actually handling the transactions are still the brokers. Jeff Frieden: We go directly to

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