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This list from CB Insights is a compilation of 50 of the most promising private generative AI companies in the world. The winners are working on foundation models, code generation, and AI as… Read More
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Excellent story of a fashion e-commerce entrepreneur bringing to market a range of new bags.Positioning, customer acquisition, business development, partnerships – many topics are deal… Read More
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The global cyber security market is projected to grow 14% annually from $172.32 billion in 2023 to $424.97 billion in 2030. Cyber security player Palo Alto Networks (NYSE: PANW) recentl… Read More
Hannah Fastov: For six months, I couldn’t stop thinking about this idea. In January of 2016, I googled “New York handbag designer”. I found my designer who had been with me… Read More
Sramana Mitra: What level did you reach in 2019?
Hannah Fastov: In 2019, we did $4 million. Then the pandemic hit.
Sramana Mitra: How did that go?
Hannah Fastov: That was an interes… Read More
During this week’s roundtable, we discussed two school-driven GTM strategies.
Eduberance
First, Niraj Harlalka in Ahmedabad, India, pitched Eduberance, a vernacular EdTech ventur… Read More
Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) recently reported its first quarter results that failed to impress the market. The miss in the revenue performance and outlook sent the stock falling 9% in the after-hour… Read More
Sramana Mitra: That brings us to end of 2017. What kind of revenues were you tracking at?
Hannah Fastov: Close to a million. At this time, most of our revenue was coming in from our whole… Read More
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Over the last decade and more, I’ve had the privi… Read More
Today’s 620th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 20 minutes, on Thursday, October 5, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE t… Read More
Sramana Mitra: Tell me about traffic for the Shopify website. What strategy did you follow to drive traffic?
Hannah Fastov: After we launched our Shopify website, we started to engage wit… Read More
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Art.com Co-founder Josh Chodniewicz bootstrapped for 10… Read More
Sramana Mitra: The positioning was as a gym bag.
Hannah Fastov: We started as a gym bag. Our first trade show and our first target demo was either to the fitness instructor who was teachi… Read More
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Sramana Mitra: Did revenue take a hit in 2020?
Hannah Fastov: It did. That was when we were able to see the benefits of the direct to consumer business that we had built. It remained equa… Read More
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This feature from Gartner looks at the growing demand for intelligent apps powered by AI. By 2026, 30% of new applications are expected to use AI to drive personalized adaptive user interfac… Read More
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You may have read my Bootstrapping to an Exit piece, where I… Read More
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Let’s start with a quote from Marc Andreessen:… Read More
According to a recent report, the Data Science Platforms market is estimated to grow at 16% CAGR to reach $378.7 billion by 2030 from $96.3 billion in 2021. Databricks, a leading data analyt… Read More
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Negotiation is a straightforward game. You can only neg… Read More
Today’s 621st FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, October 12, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. P… Read More
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Let’s do a thought experiment.
List all the th… Read More
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During this week’s roundtable, we discussed why there is such a high rejection rate in the startup industry when it comes to venture financing. One of the entrepreneurs, for example, i… Read More
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 622nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 19, 2023, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST.
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According to a recent report, the global marketing technology (MarTech) market is expected to grow at 20% CAGR through 2030 from $325.7 billion in 2022. Recently listed Klaviyo&nbs… Read More
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Our time-tested 1Mby1M methodology for building technology startups has been packaged into short courses on Udemy as a part of our aim to democratize entrepreneurship education at scale glob… Read More
This report from CB Insights provides the annual list of the 100 most promising private fintech companies in the world. This year’s winners are working chiefly on A2A payments, spend m… Read More
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I wrote a book called Billion Dollar Unicorns a few years ba… Read More
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 622nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 19, 2023, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST.
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MongoDB (Nasdaq: MDB) recently reported its second-quarter results that blew past all market expectations. The market was pleased with its performance and sent the stock soaring 8%… Read More
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I hope you read my article Bootstrapping to Exit. As a… Read More
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I hope you are following the Bootstrapping to Exit (let&rsqu… Read More
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Arvind is an experienced entrepreneur who was able to raise $15M on a concept to solve a big problem. Since then, Glean has been abundantly funded, generates abundant revenue and has become… Read More
Sramana Mitra: This problem has been identified a long time ago. People have tried to build such enterprise knowledge management companies before. I’ve seen many of these attempts. Mos… Read More
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During this week’s roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs.
RAVC Solutions
First up we had Ratan Agrahari in Lucknow, India, pitch RAVC Solutions, a sola… Read More
Sramana Mitra: In your selection of which investors to work with, what was your decision making? Was it people you worked with before?
Arvind Jain: There are two key investors in our firs… Read More
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 623rd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 26, 2023, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST.
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You must have read something or the other about Blitzsc… Read More
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Sramana Mitra: There’s another positive impact that happened during the pandemic. On the sales side, organizations became comfortable buying products over Zoom calls. You do everything… Read More
This report from Gartner identifies the top 10 strategic technology trends that organizations need to explore in 2024. These include democratized Generative AI, AI trust, risk and security m… Read More
Sramana Mitra: This strategy that you followed is good for companies that have a lot of early-stage funding. It’s not so easy to follow for companies that are trying to work in a very… Read More
According to a recent report, the generative AI market is expected to explode to reach $1.3 trillion by 2032 from a relatively modest $40 billion in 2022. The more than 40% annualized growth… Read More
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While it doesn’t happen that often, Bootstrapped… Read More
Sramana Mitra: I’m going to ask you this question, computer scientist to computer scientist. Really great work in search is a matter of great algorithms. Algorithms are not necessarily… Read More