Bootstrapping to $20 Million with Intelligent Financial Engineering: Tim Hentschel, CEO of Hotelplanner.com (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Tim has built an excellent company with quite unorthodox financial engineering decisions that have played out very well for him. Read this story to learn some out-of-the-box thinking. Sramana Mitra: Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and

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Thursday, May 14 – 259th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 259th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 14, 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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Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 1)

Carl has bootstrapped eMazzanti using services to close to $10M, maintaining a 20% y-o-y growth rate. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and in what kind of background? Carl Mazzanti: I was born in Pennsylvania. I come from a military family.

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May 14 – 259th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 259th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 14, 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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258th Roundtable Recording On May 7, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Sid Banerjee, CEO of Clarabridge

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Roundtable Recap: May 7 – Billion Dollar Unicorns With Clarabridge CEO Sid Banerjee

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Sid Banerjee, CEO and Co-founder of Clarabridge, a unicorn in the making from Virginia. My Time Blocks As for the pitches, first up, Suzanne Abate from Los Angeles, California, pitched My Time Blocks, a SaaS solution for time management and optimization

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258th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 258th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 7, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Thursday, May 7 – 258th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 258th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 7, 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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