September 25 – 231st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 231st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, September 25, 2014, 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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230th Roundtable Recording On September 18, 2014: With Jason Stoffer, Maveron

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: You can find the dates and register for upcoming roundtables here. Book: From E-Commerce to Web 3.0

Roundtable Recap: September 18 – From eCommerce to Web 3.0 with Jason Stoffer, Partner, Maveron

Today’s roundtable kicked off with a great discussion with Jason Stoffer of Maveron. Maveron is a consumer-only venture capital firm that has had a successful track record of investing in e-commerce ventures ranging from eBay, Shutterfly, Groupon to the more recent Zulily. They also invest in education ventures. In today’s discussion with Jason, some of

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Bootstrapping Using Services, Scaling Using Content Marketing: John Sundberg, CEO of Kinetic Data (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is the ramp of the company? You said you did $100,000 and then $250,000 in the second year. John Sundberg: We were doubling every year for about six years. Then it went flat for about five years during the economic slowdown. Last year, we did $7.5 million and the year before $5 million.

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230th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 230th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 18, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

230th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 230th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 18, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

Bootstrapping Using Services, Scaling Using Content Marketing: John Sundberg, CEO of Kinetic Data (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What do you have in terms of the content team? How do you run your content production farm? John Sundberg: We have consultants and developers. We have product marketing managers. Those are all internal people that we have. We probably have a handful of customers that have done a couple of things too.

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Bootstrapping Using Services, Scaling Using Content Marketing: John Sundberg, CEO of Kinetic Data (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Unfortunately, that’s the problem with enterprise sales cycles. They are just so very long. John Sundberg: Exactly. I did so many demos of the software to them. It was ridiculous. In one of the demos I did for them, they had people from all over the world call. I had given a 1-800

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