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Thursday, July 2 – 266th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Monday, Jun 29th

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 266th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 2, 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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265th Roundtable Recording On June 25, 2015: From E-Commerce To Web 3.0 with Alexander Zacke, Auctionata

Posted on Sunday, Jun 28th

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

July 2 – 266th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jun 26th

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 266th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 2, 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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Roundtable Recap: June 25 – From E-Commerce to Web 3.0 with Alexander Zache, CEO of Auctionata

Posted on Thursday, Jun 25th

During today’s roundtable, we had Alexander Zacke, founder and CEO of Auctionata, as our guest. The discussion was around Alexander’s online auction house business and how he has built a quintessential Web 3.0 business taking advantage of the web’s building blocks: commerce, community and content in the context of online auctions. Smoocer As for the

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265th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Jun 25th

Today’s 265th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 25, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

 Bootstrapping Using Services from North Carolina: Ateb CEO Frank Sheppard (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Jun 25th

Sramana Mitra: How fast were you able to course correct on that? I imagine that when you saw that things were not working out, you fired the CEO. When did that happen? Frank Sheppard: Late 2003, I believe. We were probably short of bankruptcy, but like all good entrepreneurs, we were too stupid to do

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Bootstrapping Using Services from North Carolina: Ateb CEO Frank Sheppard (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Jun 24th

Frank Sheppard: At that time, my spouse was still with IBM, working in the retail division. She just saw some opportunity there. We agreed to bring her on board in late 1995 to see if she can develop a lot of what we were doing for the telecom industry. We were able to do that very

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Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn in Online Real Estate: Auction.com CEO Jeff Frieden (Part 7)

Posted on Tuesday, Jun 23rd

Sramana Mitra: Given the numbers you’ve quoted in terms of houses sold, it seems to me that you should be ready to go public at this point. Is that part of the thinking? Why or why not? What’s going on from an exit point of view? Jake Seid: Our goal is to build a big company.

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