Bootstrapping to $20 Million with Intelligent Financial Engineering: Tim Hentschel, CEO of Hotelplanner.com (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Between 2005 and 2015, there’s a ten-year journey. Can you highlight for us some of the major strategic moves that really helped your business propel forward? Tim Hentschel: The years between 2005 and 2008 were very interesting because we had two competitors. One was Group Travel Planet and the other was Groupe. Groupe had the Travelocity

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Bootstrapping to $20 Million with Intelligent Financial Engineering: Tim Hentschel, CEO of Hotelplanner.com (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do with that? What was the next milestone after you got that money? Tim Hentschel: We just used it for growth. We eventually bought our own office space in San Diego and started hiring some people. Sramana Mitra: Why would you buy office space? Tim Hentschel: There was a real estate

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May 21 – 260th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 260th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 21, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/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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259th 1M/1M Roundtable Recording On May 14, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with InMobi Co-Founder Amit Gupta

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Roundtable Recap: May 14 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with InMobi Co-Founder Amit Gupta

During today’s roundtable, we continued to celebrate the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Amit Gupta, Co-Founder of InMobi. My aversion to ‘Valuation Without Revenue’ Unicorns is well know. Amit started off by telling us that InMobi’s valuation is firmly anchored in revenues. Amit went on to discuss InMobi’s strategy for going global,

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Bootstrapping to $20 Million with Intelligent Financial Engineering: Tim Hentschel, CEO of Hotelplanner.com (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Before we go to the post two-year bootstrapping phase, what did you achieve? You launched a website. You started getting customers. How did you get customers? How did the customers find you? Tim Hentschel: It wasn’t that hard in those days. The Internet was new. Blogs were just beginning to become popular. I

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259th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 259th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 14, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Does that mean that you were building more like a toolkit as opposed to a full blown architected product? You have a toolkit that you apply wherever similar problems crop up again. Does that describe the scenario better? Carl Mazzanti: If you look at where we are 15 years from now, the primary

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