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Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 1)
Building businesses has become cheaper by several orders of magnitude. Josh Levy and his team took just over $2 million in angel financing, and has built a profitable business in New York. For those entrepreneurs facing the Series A crunch, this is an important story to follow. You will do fine if you have patient
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: If you’re trying to do that, are you then saying that you are going out into the social web to pull all that data? For instance, my private bank is Morgan Stanley. Morgan Stanley doesn’t have any of that information unless they go into my LinkedIn graph. Manish Sood: Even before you go
Building Significant Revenue with Inbound Marketing from Israel: Pepperi CEO Ofer Yourvexel (Part 4)
Sramana Mitra: Was there also a visual merchandising element to the segments you were working with? Ofer Yourvexel: Definitely. It’s not just about the product. The brand managers want to control the way their retailers are presenting it. There is an element of making sure that the retailers are complying with the way that they
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: What were the circumstances of founding this company? Who was involved besides yourself? What kind of financing did you do? Give me a bit more of the entrepreneur journey in the beginning. Manish Sood: In the early part of 2011, myself and my co-founder sat down and talked about the idea. At that
Building Significant Revenue with Inbound Marketing from Israel: Pepperi CEO Ofer Yourvexel (Part 3)
Sramana Mitra: Tell me a bit more about that pivot. What gave you the idea that this pivot is where the opportunity is? Was there any kind of validation that you were able to do? What was the catalyst for that pivot? Ofer Yourvexel: The catalyst was the product that we had already done on the
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 2)
Manish Sood: Consider how these customers look at engaging with their customers, vendors or gathering any kind of competitive information around products they are selling in the market. All of these different types of problems, whether it’s customer loyalty, customer experience, or customer engagement, requires you to think about bringing data together from multiple sources— both
Building Significant Revenue with Inbound Marketing from Israel: Pepperi CEO Ofer Yourvexel (Part 2)
Sramana Mitra: Before we get into the new venture story, you mentioned that you ran two startups while you were in the US. Were they companies that you founded or recruited to run? How did those come about? It sounds like that’s where you got some of your entrepreneurial experience as well. Ofer Yourvexel: The
Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 1)
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. Here’s yet another case in point in our Bootstrapping Using Services series. Manish is scaling Reltio super fast at this point, and has raised venture capital, consistent with our theme Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.