Bootstrap First, Raise Money from Kleiner Perkins Later: William King, CEO of Zephyr Health (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: You raised $15 million in this round? William King: Yes. Sramana Mitra: That’s all the financing that you have raised so far? William King: Correct. Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit about how you framed TAM for your business. What is the TAM model that you’ve been using? William King: I’ll just give

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money from Kleiner Perkins Later: William King, CEO of Zephyr Health (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: This, by the way, is also a trend. For the longest time, the buyers of IT were IT departments of corporations. Today and going forward, the buyers are much more going to be the business users. The marketing department, for instance, is becoming a huge buyer of IT and other departments as well.

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April 2nd – 253rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 253rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, April 2, 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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Bootstrap First, Raise Money from Kleiner Perkins Later: William King, CEO of Zephyr Health (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: That’s the beauty of this bootstrap first, raise money later model. You’re going out to raise from a position of strength as opposed to weakness. You’re not begging for money. You’re in the negotiating position. In any given time in the market, there is more money chasing fundable deals than fundable solid deals

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252nd Roundtable Recording On March 12, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Rob Hull, Adaptive Insights

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

Roundtable Recap: March 12 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Rob Hull, Founder of Adaptive Insights

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Rob Hull, Founder and Chairman of Adaptive Insights. Rob shared in-depth insights on how he raised $4.5 million to get the company off the ground, as well as what he would do differently today. HelloHealthy As for the pitches, first up,

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252nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 252nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, March 12, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Bootstrap First, Raise Money from Kleiner Perkins Later: William King, CEO of Zephyr Health (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What year does that bring us up to? William King: I left London at the end of 2008.  It was great to learn about business, marketing, and management. The other thing that I’ve always been interested in is the world of technology, given all the devices that we have. The thing that really

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