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Roundtable Recap: January 8 – Kicking Off 2015 With Great Energy
We kicked off 2015 with our first roundtable, as always an international ensemble of entrepreneurs sharing their ideas, businesses, and dreams. Mobicip First up, Suren Ramasubbu from Thousand Oaks, California, pitched Mobicip, a parental control app for mobile devices that is already generating $500k in revenue. Suren also has a school-focused app, and some other
243rd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M
Today’s 243rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, January 8, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.
Thursday, January 8 – 243rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 243rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 8, 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
Thursday, Jan. 8 – 243rd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 243rd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, January 8, 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
Building an Internet of Things Platform Company from Zaragoza, Spain: Alicia Asin, CEO of Libelium (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Other than universities, are there any other vertical trends that you see in terms of kinds of companies – retail, logistics, or healthcare? Where are you seeing the projects? Alicia Asin: Because we are a horizontal platform, we have customers not only in universities but also in system integrators and communication companies. Sramana Mitra:
Bootstrapping a $25 Million E-Commerce Company: Saatva Co-Founder Ricky Joshi (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Are these people in your payroll the people who are doing the delivery? Ricky Joshi: It depends. Sramana Mitra: It sounds like a very expensive infrastructure. That’s what I’m struggling with. For a bootstrapped company, to roll out that kind of infrastructure is rather difficult. Help me reconcile. Ricky Joshi: We’re doing $25
Bootstrapping a $25 Million E-Commerce Company: Saatva Co-Founder Ricky Joshi (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Absolutely. Tell me more about the business itself. First and foremost, who were the people involved when you got this off the ground? You mentioned your co-founder. Where did he come from? How did you meet him? Where do you know him from? Ricky Joshi: There are basically three co-founders of the company—myself,
Bootstrapping a $25 Million E-Commerce Company: Saatva Co-Founder Ricky Joshi (Part 1)
I have spoken with many VCs who are looking or e-commerce companies that can scale at venture pace, which is hard to achieve. On the other side of the spectrum, however, the bootstrapped e-commerce companies are going gangbusters! Saatva is one such and a terrific company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with your personal back story.