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Thursday, July 9 – 267th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 267th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 9, 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
Bootstrap the First Venture, Raise Money for the Second: cVidya CEO Alon Aginsky (Part 1)
As a variation on our ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’ theme, we also see many entrepreneurs who have bootstrapped a first company (or business), and then gone onto venture-fund a second. Christian Chabot built Tableau Software in this mode. Sridhar Vembu built Zoho. We have numerous examples of this tried and true path. Something to
Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: I’m interested in more granular information. Josh Levy: I think TV is a great example. In 2007 to 2010, television was cheap. The market and the economy were down. It was a great time for us to step in and grow the brand through television. At that time, we had been trying Facebook
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 7)
Sramana Mitra: Why did you raise money? What was the thinking behind raising money? Manish Sood: The thinking behind raising money was that we had validated the opportunity and had substantial revenue was being generated, how do we accelerate? We are still dealing with enterprise customers. Some of these sales cycles can be long. At the
Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What are the use cases? What are the drivers to want to subscribe to something like this? In my life, for instance, if I need to check somebody out, I go to LinkedIn and look at their profiles. Josh Levy: If I have to pick the hardest problem for BeenVerified, it’s that we
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 6)
Sramana Mitra: That’s your experience. We work with a very large number of entrepreneurs. Not everybody comes from a company where they’ve already seen a problem unsolved and then they go after that. You had a lot of your validation and probing done while you were already at Siperian and Informatica. You built upon that
Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: In 2007 when you started with this concept, did you raise money? Did you bootstrap? How did you get the business off the ground? Josh Levy: We bootstrapped it for a couple of months. My co-founder and I were working out at his house in his living room. Right around the time when
266th Roundtable Recording On July 2, 2015: Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship With Magoosh CEO Bhavin Parikh
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:
