Roundtable Recap: February 16 – Freemium, Free-Trial, Conversion Rates and More

During this week’s roundtable, Christian Vanek, CEO and Co-founder of SurveyGizmo was our guest. Christian has bootstrapped the company to $13 million and is forecasting $26 million this year with no external funding. We had a candid discussion that was both inspiring and enlightening.

Event Flavour
As for the pitches, Ashok Dudhat, pitched from Berlin, Germany, Event Flavour, an event ticketing solution a la Eventbrite that he also wants to morph into a matchmaking engine between event organizers and venue providers. The business faces a ton of competition, and needs a much more sophisticated differentiation strategy. The business is already generating revenue, which is excellent.
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340th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 340th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 16, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!

339th 1M/1M Roundtable Recording On February 9, 2017

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Thursday, February 16 – 340th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 340th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 16, 2017, 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 of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and register to pitch or attend here. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

February 16 – 340th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 340th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, February 16, 2017, 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 of your questions. Others can register to “attend” to watch, learn, and interact through the online chat.

You can learn more here and register to pitch or attend here. Please share with any entrepreneurs in your circle who may be interested. All are welcome!

Roundtable Recap: February 9 – Understand Your Unit Economics

During this week’s roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs and looked at some videos that generated further discussions and Q&A.

CoolGrad.com
Vinaya Kurpad, pitching from San Jose, CA, CoolGrad.com, presented a video-based college selection feedback site. Vinaya has some early metrics of user engagement around about 400 videos. She needs to validate the unit economic of video production, CPM, traffic acquisition, etc. She also wants to sell analytics on student feedback to universities, which requires critical mass of student engagement per university.
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339th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 339th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 9, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!