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Thursday, October 15 – 280th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 280th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 15, 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
Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Walk us through the process of building the company. You spun the company off at what point? Did you already have clients when you spun it off? Rohyt Belani: We did. We had about 20 customers at that point. It was a tightrope walk. As you can imagine, a product company in its
Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 3)
Rohyt Belani: Just to lay it out, Farm Stone was acquired by McAfee. I worked there. Then I worked at Mandiant, which was acquired by FireEye. The group I had founded with Aaron was also acquired in 2012. Along that journey at Intrepidus, we had already come up with the product idea for founding PhishMe.
Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 2)
Rohyt Belani: Here I am on a student visa with eight weeks to go till graduation, and I was starting to scramble for a job. Then, I just ran into a job. I ran into a gentleman, literally, in the hallways of Carnegie-Mellon. I was introduced via email to him. He was an Adjunct Professor. He
October 15 – 280th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 280th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 15, 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
279th 1M/1M Roundtable Recording On Oct. 8, 2015: Greg Gianforte On Entrepreneurship, Economic Development And Politics
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:
Bootstrapping Using Services First, Raising Money Later: Rohyt Belani, CEO of PhishMe (Part 1)
Following up on our ‘Bootstrapping Using Services‘ and ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’ case studies, here’s the story of PhishMe, a cyber security company that has scaled nicely. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Rohyt
Roundtable Recap: October 8 – Greg Gianforte On Entrepreneurship, Economic Development And Politics
During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Greg Gianforte, Founder and CEO of RightNow Technologies. Greg took RightNow public, and later sold it to Oracle for $1.5 billion. He made an unorthodox choice of building the company mainly in Montana. Today, RightNow (now Oracle) is one of Montana’s largest employers, and Greg is
