Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Why did you raise money? What was the thinking behind raising money? Manish Sood: The thinking behind raising money was that we had validated the opportunity and had substantial revenue was being generated, how do we accelerate? We are still dealing with enterprise customers. Some of these sales cycles can be long. At the

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Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What are the use cases? What are the drivers to want to subscribe to something like this? In my life, for instance, if I need to check somebody out, I go to LinkedIn and look at their profiles. Josh Levy: If I have to pick the hardest problem for BeenVerified, it’s that we

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: That’s your experience. We work with a very large number of entrepreneurs. Not everybody comes from a company where they’ve already seen a problem unsolved and then they go after that. You had a lot of your validation and probing done while you were already at Siperian and Informatica. You built upon that

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Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: In 2007 when you started with this concept, did you raise money? Did you bootstrap? How did you get the business off the ground? Josh Levy: We bootstrapped it for a couple of months. My co-founder and I were working out at his house in his living room. Right around the time when

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266th Roundtable Recording On July 2, 2015: Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship With Magoosh CEO Bhavin Parikh

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

July 9 – 267th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 267th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 9, 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 Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Did you pick a vertical to go after or were you doing it more horizontally at this point? Manish Sood: We did narrow down on the life sciences vertical because we had seen some adoption from a SaaS perspective. But we were also approaching customers outside that vertical to understand where the potential opportunities might exist.

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Roundtable Recap: July 2 – Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship

During today’s roundtable, we had Bhavin Parikh, CEO and Founder of Magoosh, as our guest of honor. Bhavin Parikh has built an incredibly capital efficient venture, and we discussed his philosophy, strategy, and tactics in the first segment. Exchange4solar As for the pitches, first up, Sourabh Jain from Mumbai, India, pitched exchange4solar, a marketplace for

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