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E-Commerce
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Is there a counterpart of yours on the enterprise side who also deals with seed stage investments in the B2B businesses? Daniel Gulati: There are two relevant streams there. We have a sister fund that we are an LP in. They lead the best B2B investments on the East Coast. One of my
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Daniel Gulati, Comcast Ventures (Part 1)
Excellent discussion on the e-commerce startup trends and what can and cannot be venture financed at this stage, and why. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as Comcast Ventures. Daniel Gulati: I’m currently a Principal of Comcast Ventures based here in San Francisco. I focus 100% of my time
An Animal Lover’s Beautiful Journey: Elephant Pants CEO Nathan Coleman (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Was the value proposition that you were going to contribute a portion of this to the cause of saving elephants? Nathan Coleman: Exactly. That was the mission from day one. We sell these pants but we also contribute a portion of every sale to different elephant organizations. That’s how we ended up getting
An Animal Lover’s Beautiful Journey: Elephant Pants CEO Nathan Coleman (Part 2)
Nathan Coleman: We reached out to different elephant organizations, one of which was the African Wildlife Foundation. We wanted to find a way to help these elephants. I don’t think they thought we could do much about it. When we sent them a check for $1,500, that’s when we they realized we were serious. Our
An Animal Lover’s Beautiful Journey: Elephant Pants CEO Nathan Coleman (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Nathan is a true animal lover, and has built a wonderful niche e-commerce company with the mission of helping elephants. Beautiful story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where are you born, raised, and in what
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Brenda Boehler, CEO of Bellacor (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: What you’re talking about is often technically not so easy to do. There are lots of opportunities to push the envelope on really good visualization. Where do you see opportunities for new entrepreneurs to do interesting work bringing together new technologies in the space? Brenda Boehler: I do believe that it comes down
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Brenda Boehler, CEO of Bellacor (Part 3)
Brenda Boehler: When I look to where we want to take our business next, there are a number of new technologies that will greatly help people as they decorate their homes. There’re a number of concepts in other verticals that have not been implemented in our vertical yet. We have a website that has over
Thought Leaders in E-Commerce: Brenda Boehler, CEO of Bellacor (Part 2)
Brenda Boehler: The opportunity exists in creating an experience for consumers to solve a problem online. We do that in many ways. Some online and some offline. I’ll speak about lighting specifically. If you’re a lighting retailer, it’s really important that you create really good content that makes it easy for consumers to understand scale
