August 27 – 273rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 273rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, August 27, 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 from London to $10 Million: Alexandre Wentzo, CEO of Casewise (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How do you charge? What’s the business model? Alexandre Wentzo: It’s per user. Roughly, we sell at an average of $250,000. Sramana Mitra: So it’s large enterprise selling kind of business? Alexandre Wentzo: That’s correct. Things have changed because 10 years ago, we used to sell a few licenses. It would be 5 to 10

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Roundtable Recap: August 20 – Future Of Journalism

During this week’s roundtable, we had veteran journalist Tom Foremski, Publisher of SiliconValleyWatcher.com, as our guest. Tom and I had a dynamic discussion on the future of journalism. If the subject interests you, do listen to this roundtable. Tom also provided his views on a new business opportunity that he foresees: Media-as-a-Service (MaaS). ZenNut We

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Bootstrapping Lessons: FairWarning CEO Kurt Long (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: On this topic, I’d like to probe a little bit more. Let me give you some context. We have a very significant research and curriculum material on a methodology that you followed, which we call Bootstrapping Using Services. One of our Entrepreneur Journeys Series books actually covers this as well. Let’s double-click on

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272nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 272nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, August 20, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrapping from London to $10 Million: Alexandre Wentzo, CEO of Casewise (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: When you arrived, was the product already in place? Were they already selling? Alexandre Wentzo: Yes. The product was only in English at that time. There was a need to put in place a sales team in Europe. We trained them on the product. We were a very small company. I had to translate

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Bootstrapping Lessons: FairWarning CEO Kurt Long (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me about the conditions under which you started your first company. What was that company? What was going on around that led you to that and how did you get that going? Kurt Long: I was very naive about being an entrepreneur. I was a really good software developer and had a

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Bootstrapping from London to $10 Million: Alexandre Wentzo, CEO of Casewise (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you tell the story of how the company was founded and develop the story fully? Alexandre Wentzo: When I joined them in the UK, they were working in Central London in a small flat. They were keen on the French market at that time because the economy was a bit better than

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