Roundtable Recap: April 9 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Gaurav Dhillon, Founder of Informatica and SnapLogic

During today’s roundtable we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Gaurav Dhillon, Founder, Chairman and CEO, SnapLogic, and also founder of Informatica. Gaurav discussed his process of sniffing out high potential market opportunities in large horizontal enterprise software categories. Both Informatica and SnapLogic are Unicorns, and it is rare to have

Read Full Article »

Bootstrapping Using Services: Evariant CEO Bill Moschella (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: When you went to raise from this Manhattan firm with healthcare industry folks out there, what stage were you in? Did you already have a product? Did you have customers? Bill Moschella: We actually did. By the time the raise goes down at the end of 2011, we had a decent customer base.

Read Full Article »

Bootstrapping Using Services From Atlanta: PMG Founders Joe LeCompte and Robert Castles (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How did you come up with this? You were working with enterprise customers and requested this functionality? What was the process of coming up with this particular product? Robert Castles: That’s a great question. We have been doing much of what our product is today in a more ad hoc manner. We were

Read Full Article »

254th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 254th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, April 9, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn with Services from Utah: Dave Elkington, CEO of InsideSales.com (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s get down to the specifics. We understand iteration. We’ve heard this many times. It’s part of our philosophy as well in terms of the methodology of how we train entrepreneurs. We are completely on the same page with you. Specifically, what were you selling? What was the segmentation emerging out of this

Read Full Article »

Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn with Services from Utah: Dave Elkington, CEO of InsideSales.com (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: I actually have a BMW 3 Series that I categorically lease. I change them every three years. Dave Elkington: It’s uncanny. Every time I give the example, there’s a 90% overlap. People cluster with other people who behave similarly. What I needed to build was a massive engine that collected all of those

Read Full Article »

Thursday, April 9 – 254th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 254th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 9, 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

Read Full Article »

253rd Roundtable Recording On April 2, 2015

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