251st Roundtable Recording On March 5, 2015: Billion Dollar Unicorns with Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam

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Thursday, March 12 – 252nd 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 252nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 12, 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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Roundtable Recap: March 5 – Billion Dollar Unicorns with Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam

During today’s roundtable, we celebrated the launch of my book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, with Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. Veeam is Ratmir’s second venture, so he had some money to bootstrap with. Consequently, Veeam avoided taking any venture capital and grew organically till about $200 million in revenue. Today, Ratmir has taken some money from

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251st Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 251st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, March 5, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

Thursday, March 5 – 251st 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 251st FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 5, 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

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Bootstrapping in Minnesota: Praful Saklani, CEO of Pramata (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What is at the heart of that? What do you think is the core competency that you’ve built in your product that is enabling you to branch out into upsell opportunities in the enterprise and even work yourself into additional use cases? Praful Saklani: There’s a couple of things. First of all, I

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Bootstrapping to $55 Million from Rural Minnesota: Tom Fallenstein, CEO of Fun.com (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: So far, what you’ve done is domain acquisitions. The three acquisitions you talked about are domain acquisitions. While they are high numbers for domains, relatively speaking, they are small numbers. You could also grow fast by acquiring a business, not just domains? Is that something that you would consider? Tom Fallenstein: Yes, that’s

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Bootstrapping in Minnesota: Praful Saklani, CEO of Pramata (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How did you find these angels? What was the logic of these angels being in this company? Praful Saklani: Among the people that we brought on as early angels, one was the former CEO of SAP America. He’s actually listed on our website as an advisor. He was involved from a very early stage in

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