Bootstrapping to $15 Million: Ernie Bray, CEO of ACD (Part 2)

Ernie Bray: After three years, we ended up shutting down the business. It was my first taste of starting something on my own from scratch. We didn’t make much money, but during that time we didn’t know how to monetize something on the Internet. This was new, but it was the thing that clicked for me.

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Bootstrapping to $15 Million: Ernie Bray, CEO of ACD (Part 1)

Ernie leveraged his domain knowledge in auto insurance claims processing, and has built a robust, sustainable business. He uses a virtual workforce strategy to scale. 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 circumstances? Ernie Bray: I was

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October 1 – 278th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 278th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, October 1, 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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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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