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292nd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Raj De Datta, BloomReach

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 12th 2017

Raj De Datta is co-founder and CEO of e-commerce personalization technology firm, BloomReach. The company bootstrapped to over $5M in revenue before raising its first financing. Raj speaks of sensible fundamentals as opposed to irrational exuberance around Unicorn mania.

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348th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ricky Joshi, Saatva

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 12th 2017

Ricky Joshi, Co-founder at Saatva, shares the story of growing his company from 0 to over $150 million in seven years. This is pretty much venture-scale growth. The best part of the story is that the company has raised no VC money at all. Wonderful conversation about a capital-efficient, deeply disciplined company.

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309th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Fred Guelen, Planon

Posted on Wednesday, Jul 12th 2017

Fred Guelen, CFO and President of North America for Planon Group, along with his brother have built Planon to over $100M in revenue from the Netherlands. This is a very encouraging discussion for our global entrepreneurs.

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317th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Kean Graham, MonetizeMore

Posted on Saturday, Jul 1st 2017

Kean Graham, CEO of MonetizeMore, started his company with the stated goal of being able to travel while building his business. Listen to how he realized this goal.

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315th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Jason Cohen, WP Engine

Posted on Saturday, Jul 1st 2017

Jason Cohen is Founder of WP Engine, his fourth company. He has bootstrapped all four, and with the most recent one, he has bootstrapped first, then raised substantial money. Jason shares his learnings across all his ventures.

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247th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Chris Gladwin, Cleversafe

Posted on Saturday, Jul 1st 2017

Chris Gladwin, CEO of Cleversafe, has built a highly valuable company using a unique and impressive IP strategy in the enterprise storage space. We discuss fat startups, valuation of patent portfolios, and more.

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251st 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ratmir Timashev, Veeam

Posted on Saturday, Jul 1st 2017

Ratmir Timashev is CEO of Veeam. This is Ratmir’s second venture, so he had some money to bootstrap with. Consequently, Veeam avoided taking any venture capital and grew organically till about $200 million in revenue. Today, Ratmir has taken some money, but only to give himself and his co-founder some liquidity, and access a network to find adjacent product lines. Ratmir also discusses how he has structured the investment such that the company doesn’t need to exit. Very interesting!

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333rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast With Ernie Bray, ACD

Posted on Saturday, Jul 1st 2017

Ernie Bray, Founder, Chairman and CEO at Auto Claims Direct, Inc. (ACD), has built a 50-person team with 80% of the organization working virtually from different parts of the US. The company does over $15 million in revenue.

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