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May 28 – 261st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 261st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, May 28, 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
260th Roundtable Recording On May 21, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Ashish Gupta, Helion Venture Partners
In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Joe Speiser, CEO of Little Things (Part 5)
Sramana Mitra: Let me see if I understand what you’re saying. You had a large audience on Facebook and you wanted to do content marketing to that audience and drive the traffic towards a different site, which you would then monetize with Google AdSense. Is that what you’re saying? Joe Speiser: Almost. Before we made
Roundtable Recap: May 21 – Venture Capital In India With Ashish Gupta, Helion Venture Partners
During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Ashish Gupta, Co-Founder of Helion Venture Partners, one of the key players in India’s venture capital eco-system. If the topic interests you, this discussion is extremely crisp and insightful. Please check out the recording below. Crescendo Transcription As for the pitches, first
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: She’s also from the Midwest? Josh Manion: Yes, she’s from the Chicago area. We settled around Chicago in the western suburbs. I took a quick job with a network technology bar. That didn’t work out very well. That was nine months of craziness. Their business wasn’t doing well in the post dot-com world.
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Joe Speiser, CEO of Little Things (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Not all categories of e-commerce have very slim margins. We’ve got great stories of bootstrapped e-commerce companies. I think in your case, pet foods doesn’t have a lot of margin. Joe Speiser: It doesn’t. When we started, the gross margins on pet food were actually very high. But it’s the shipping that takes
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ensighten CEO Josh Manion (Part 1)
Josh is a fellow MIT alum, and a fellow believer in the tried and true methodology that we espouse in 1M/1M: Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later. Josh raised his Series A with $5M in revenue. The company today is growing at 150% year-over-year. Wonderful story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of
Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Joe Speiser, CEO of Little Things (Part 3)
Joe Speiser: In 2005, we were a very profitable business and were scaling quickly. We had 50 to 60 employees at that time. This was my first large business, so I felt that we needed help. We needed some outside experience to guide us on how to scale this company. We brought on private equity. We
