Thought Leaders in Healthcare IT: Force Therapeutics CEO Bronwyn Spira (Part 1)

Bronwyn discusses a critical aspect of telehealth that is seeing significant adoption in the Covid era. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to FORCE Therapeutics.

8 Women Founders on Building Their Startups in Podcasts

Entrepreneurs, especially woman entrepreneurs, looking for some inspirational and informative startup founders to share their unique perspectives and lessons learned, will find several success stories worth following in this selection of 30-minute podcasts. Therese Tucker, Founder and CEO of BlackLine, is a very successful female entrepreneur who followed our core philosophy of bootstrap first, raise money

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Bootstrap First to Exit, Bootstrap Again, Then Raise VC Money ALL from St. Louis: Stephanie Leffler, CEO of OneSpace (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: As I’m listening to you, I’m thinking that last year, you did over $10 million with 50 customers. I can see that business model going to $40 million to $50 million in the next three years. You’ve told me that you’re switching business models, and your focus is going to be on the

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Bootstrap First to Exit, Bootstrap Again, Then Raise VC Money ALL from St. Louis: Stephanie Leffler, CEO of OneSpace (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Stephanie bootstrapped her first company to $20 million in revenue from St. Louis. Her second, also from St. Louis, is venture-funded and crossed $10 million in revenue last year. Awesome entrepreneur, inspiring woman! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your journey. Where are you

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Janet Kosloff, CEO of InCrowd (Part 8)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to change the one questioning a little bit, and ask you what your feelings are about being a woman entrepreneur in the technology industry. What are you seeing? What has been your experience? Do you experience bias against you being a woman entrepreneur? Janet Kosloff: I wouldn’t say I experienced any

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Janet Kosloff, CEO of InCrowd (Part 7)

Janet Kosloff: In the pharma industry, they tend to do these very long tracking surveys. They’ll do them quarterly or maybe every other month. They’re very expensive. Brands could spend many millions of dollars on these tracking surveys. They take a long time to execute each wave and it takes a long time to analyze

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Janet Kosloff, CEO of InCrowd (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: When 2012 ended, what kind of revenue level did you get to? Janet Kosloff: At the end of 2012, we ended up with about a million dollars in sales. That was our first full year in business. At that time, we ended up raising our small venture round. Sramana Mitra: With which firm?

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Janet Kosloff, CEO of InCrowd (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year are we talking? Janet Kosloff: This was 2010. I wrote the business plan in 2010 and I started to think about it. Once I was ready to take the leap, I left my job because I am very commerically-oriented, and I wanted to  find a co-founder that had more of the

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