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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
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Did you pick a vertical to go after or were you doing it more horizontally at this point? Manish Sood: We did narrow down on the life sciences vertical because we had seen some adoption from a SaaS perspective. But we were also approaching customers outside that vertical to understand where the potential opportunities might exist.
Roundtable Recap: July 2 – Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship
During today’s roundtable, we had Bhavin Parikh, CEO and Founder of Magoosh, as our guest of honor. Bhavin Parikh has built an incredibly capital efficient venture, and we discussed his philosophy, strategy, and tactics in the first segment. Exchange4solar As for the pitches, first up, Sourabh Jain from Mumbai, India, pitched exchange4solar, a marketplace for
Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 1)
Building businesses has become cheaper by several orders of magnitude. Josh Levy and his team took just over $2 million in angel financing, and has built a profitable business in New York. For those entrepreneurs facing the Series A crunch, this is an important story to follow. You will do fine if you have patient
266th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M
Today’s 266th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, July 2, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What were the circumstances of founding this company? Who was involved besides yourself? What kind of financing did you do? Give me a bit more of the entrepreneur journey in the beginning. Manish Sood: In the early part of 2011, myself and my co-founder sat down and talked about the idea. At that
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 2)
Manish Sood: Consider how these customers look at engaging with their customers, vendors or gathering any kind of competitive information around products they are selling in the market. All of these different types of problems, whether it’s customer loyalty, customer experience, or customer engagement, requires you to think about bringing data together from multiple sources— both
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Here’s yet another case in point in our Bootstrapping Using Services series. Manish is scaling Reltio super fast at this point, and has raised venture capital, consistent with our theme Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.
