556th Roundtable Recording with Seong Kim, Chegg

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Roundtable Recap: December 9 – Discussion on EdTech Exit Strategy

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Seong Kim, Corporate Strategy & Development for Chegg Inc., to discuss exit strategy within EdTech. Relai As for entrepreneur pitches, we had 1Mby1M Premium member Claudia Giannoni from London, UK, pitching Relai, a real estate marketplace leveraging the SaaS-enabled marketplace trend that we like a lot. You

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Non-Technical Founder Scaling SaaS Venture to Exit: Velocify Founder Jeff Solomon (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What is the next major milestone in the history of the company? Jeff Solomon: Two things. We started to get heavy in insurance. At that time, the secondary education market was growing fast. It’s a very similar model to mortgage in the sense that the money was coming from the government. There was

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IPOs 2021: Freshworks Focuses on PaaS Capabilities

I have followed Freshworks (Nasdaq: FRSH) from the days when its founder, Girish Mathrubootham, met me in 2011 at a TiE Chennai event. I have always seen potential in its offerings. Freshworks, nee Freshdesk, has come a long way since then. What began as a CX offering, has expanded to employee and IT support, to

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Non-Technical Founder Building a Tech Startup to over $10m: David Moricca, CEO of Socialive (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Six years is a long time. How much money did you raise to get through six years with little revenue? David Moricca: Over the years, probably $5 million or less. This was over six to eight years. It sounds crazy. Sramana Mitra: I’m not surprised that you were able to survive on $6

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping IdeaScale to $5M from Scratch

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  The Innovation Management software space is quite crowded. When I spoke to Co-founder Robert Hoehn in 2016, IdeaScale had managed to carve out a niche. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by going to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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556th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 556th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, December 9, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Non-Technical Founder Scaling SaaS Venture to Exit: Velocify Founder Jeff Solomon (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Go back to the 2004 timeframe when you were just getting started. How did you finance the product development and the early stage of the journey. It doesn’t seem like revenues were of a scale where you can fund it with revenues. Jeff Solomon: Initially, we funded it with cash flow from the

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