April 22 Roundtable Recording

In case you missed this session, here is the recording:

Vision India 2020 Book Review: Edward Fields

Edward Fields, founder, chairman and CEO of HotChalk, has posted the following review of Vision India 2020 by Sramana Mitra: “Charting a course to the future and actually providing a tool to practically navigate with is what separates Sramana’s work from so many others. Sramana’s ability to see over the horizon with a grounded perspective

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Forbes Column 2010: Bootstrapped SaaS Gains Critical Mass

Entrepreneurs are building significant Software-as-a-Service businesses without outside capital. Read more in this week’s Forbes column, Bootstrapped SaaS Gains Critical Mass.

Roundtable Recap: April 15 – Small Is OK; The Goal Is Profitability

This morning I worked with four new entrepreneurs, all at the early stage of validating who their customers are and building their businesses. Up first was Martin Calle and his company OraQuel. Martin worked for years on product development for companies like Procter & Gamble and Frito-Lay, but eventually wanted to create a product that

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April 15 Roundtable Recording

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College Bootstrapping Buddies: Grasshopper Cofounders Siamak Taghaddos And David Hauser (Part 7)

SM: Is RingCentral larger than you are? ST: Not necessarily, but I can’t say for sure. The only thing I really know about them is that they have raised a couple rounds of venture capital. I never look at competitors and worry about what they’re doing. I don’t believe they are much bigger than we

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College Bootstrapping Buddies: Grasshopper Cofounders Siamak Taghaddos And David Hauser (Part 6)

SM: Intuit does well because accountants and bookkeepers all know and use its product. They are all trained on QuickBooks, and they are not entrepreneurs. Even Microsoft could not penetrate that relationship. ST: It all depends on the services they’re going to provide to entrepreneurs. Intuit has done a great job and has been very

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Vision India 2020 Book Review: Subrata Mitra

Subrata Mitra, a partner with Accel Partners, has written a notable review: “Vision India 2020 is a great read for anyone who believes in the India story, how the country is touted to emerge as a global economic force in the coming decades, and how younger generations can think very differently about their lives and

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