Thursday, Mar. 12 – 252nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 252nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 12, 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 1)

Continuing on our theme of ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’, here’s William King’s story of building a robust company in the healthcare industry, now funded by Kleiner Perkins. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of circumstances? William

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251st Roundtable Recording On March 5, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam

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

Thursday, March 12 – 252nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 252nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 12, 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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Roundtable Recap: March 5 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. Veeam is Ratmir’s second venture, so he had some money to bootstrap with. Consequently, Veeam avoided taking any venture capital and grew organically till about $200 million in revenue. Today, Ratmir has taken some money from

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251st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 251st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, March 5, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Thursday, March 5 – 251st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 251st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 5, 2015, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/9:30 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 in Minnesota: Praful Saklani, CEO of Pramata (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What is at the heart of that? What do you think is the core competency that you’ve built in your product that is enabling you to branch out into upsell opportunities in the enterprise and even work yourself into additional use cases? Praful Saklani: There’s a couple of things. First of all, I

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