SIPA presents a panel discussion
about a journey from bootstrapping to customer
acquisition for your startup.
The term bootstrapping comes from the German
legend of Baron Münchhausen pulling
himself out of the sea by pulling on his
own bootstraps.
Despite the dream of many entrepreneurs
to meet a VC with deep pockets, the fact
is that a high percent of business owners
struggle alone, pulling themselves up by
their own bootstraps. And that's not necessarily
a bad thing. With a little luck and a lot
of pluck, bootstrapping a business can be
both financially and emotionally rewarding.
So what should an Entrepreneur do? There
is no single recipe for bootstrapping a
company, but there are some essential ingredients.
In many ways bootstrapping a company is
fundamentally different than using outside
funding. Learn how our panel members were
able to make it work, what they would do
differently today, and why they chose to
bootstrap.
Attend the event to
learn:
- How to bootstrap your own startup?
- Lessons Learned by successful bootstrapped
companies?
- What are the essential ingredients for
bootstrapping?
- Options to fund a business?
Panelists:
- Manish Chandra, Founder & CEO, Kaboodle,
Inc.
- Carl J. Rohling, Esq., V.P. Business
Development, RadioTime
- Shail Talati -
Co-Founder, The Mint Pages
- Vasudev Bhandarkar, Venture Partner,
BlueRun Ventures (Moderator)
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Carl J. Rohling
- V.P. Business Development,
RadioTime
Carl Rohling is a Vice President of
Sales and Business Development for
RadioTime, Inc. He manages strategic
alliances and distribution for both the
consumer web service and the OEM
business units. His focus for web
services is portal, music and ISP
services and for OEM targets the
automotive, PC, consumer electronics.
Rohling has over (6) years experience in
digital media covering both hardware and
software in roles ranging from
marketing, sales and business
development. He spent (2) years at
Creative Labs overseeing their business
development activities for the portable
audio, speaker and web camera business
units. Tying together services and
hardware was his achievement in
delivering and end-to-end solution for a
better consumer experience. Prior to
that, he spent (3) years as Director of
Business Development for SonicBlue,
Inc. Rohling was involved in
SonicBlue’s expansion into consumer
electronics with the acquisition of the
ReplayTV and GoVideo product lines.
Rohling was a corporate attorney for
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
in New York City and a litigation
attorney for Paul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison working out of their
New York, Hong Kong and Tokyo offices.
Rohling pursued undergraduate studies
from University at Albany and MBA, J.D
from University at Buffalo.
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Manish Chandra - Founder & CEO,
Kaboodle
Manish Chandra is the founder and CEO of
Kaboodle, a free online service that
simplifies collecting, organizing and
sharing information on the web for
online shopping, travel and research.
Prior to Kaboodle, Manish was the VP of
Marketing at Versant (NASDAQ: VSNT).
Before Versant, Manish was part of the
executive team at Versata that grew the
company from 8 to 600 employees and took
it public in March 2000.
Manish also held R&D and Product
Management Roles at Sybase (NYSE:SY) and
Intel (NASDAQ: INTC). Manish is a
charter member of TiE and chairs the TiE
SIG on Internet. Manish holds an MBA
from the University of California at
Berkeley Haas School, an MS in Computer
Science from the University of Texas at
Austin and a Bachelor of Technology from
IIT Kanpur, India.
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Moderator
Vasudev Bhandarkar -
Venture Partner,
BlueRun
Ventures
Vas Bhandarkar is a successful private investor and serial
entrepreneur who currently focuses on
business-to-consumer and mobile
value-added-services companies. He has
22 years of experience in marketing,
business development, sales, product
development and general management.
Among his other accomplishments he has
broad experience in
bootstrapping-to-customer-acquisition
Alma Enterprises a B2B services company,
the now public Selectica a B2B2C
company and Unimobile a wireless
value-added-services B2C company
currently a division of Verisign. He has
successfully implemented B2B, B2B2C and
B2C business models in executive roles
in marketing, business and
channel development online, offline and
wirelessly.
He was the founding VP of Marketing and Business Development at
Selectica, the Chairman and CEO of
Unimobile and currently works as a
private investor investing
in early-to-mid-stage companies in the
US-India corridor. His most recent
investment is
carwale.com.
Bhandarkar holds a Master’s degree in
Physics from IIT- Bombay, a Master’s
degree in Computer Science from Colorado
State University.
His online bio is at
http://vbhandarkar.blogspot.com and
also maintains a photo travelblog at
http://www.flickr.com/photos/drona/sets/ |
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Shail Talati
- Co-Founder,
The Mint
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