Bootstrapping a Highly Profitable Company in Social Media Marketing: Brand Networks CEO Jamie Tedford (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year did that chapter end for you? Jamie Tedford: Around 2002.  I got to work with an ad agency called Arnold Worldwide. I worked with a lot of really big brands. The brand that really got me excited was Volkswagen. I learned a lot of about traditional advertising at that time. I

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Bootstrapping a Highly Profitable Company in Social Media Marketing: Brand Networks CEO Jamie Tedford (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Jamie bootstrapped Brand Networks to a highly profitable, large business leveraging the disruption in brand marketing caused by social media. He then sold minority stake in the company to a private equity firm. Excellent execution for bombbomb alternatives! Sramana Mitra:

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June 18 – 264th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 263rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 11, 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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263rd 1M/1M Roundtable On June 11, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Ambarish Gupta, Knowlarity

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Bootstrapping an Evergreen Business From Oregon: Kirstin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is the current thinking now that you’re approaching $30 million? Many companies at your stage start thinking about selling a portion of the company… Kristin Quinlan: There has been a lot of interest in our company from outside. We’ve been through two exercises on what that would look like. That was about

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Bootstrapping an Evergreen Business From Oregon: Kirstin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Where are you right now revenue-wise? Kristin Quinlan: Last year, we were at $23.2 million. We’re on course to do, at least, $27 million this year. We can be as high as $30 million. Sramana Mitra: Is this a highly profitable business? Kristin Quinlan: Yes, it’s highly profitable. All of our growth has

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Roundtable Recap: June 11 – Selling SaaS To Indian SMBs

During today’s roundtable, we had Ambarish Gupta, Founder and CEO of Knowlarity, as our guest. If you want to understand the business to selling SaaS to Indian SMBs, this discussion is a must for you to listen to. Yo! App As for the pitches, first up, Prasanna Jha from Pune, India, pitched Yo! App, a

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263rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 263rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, June 11, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.