Building a Retail Business in India: Manish Sharma, CEO of Printo (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Manish Sharma is the co-founder and CEO of Printo, a Bangalore, India-based company specializing in high quality printing. Manish is a serial entrepreneur who began his career in 1995 as an early member of the startup team at Rediff.com. He went on to be the co-founder of DBS Internet

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Sramana: Can you give me some idea about how the company ramped in terms of users beyond May 2012 when you brought to market the product with the more advanced functionality. Christophe: We had 9 million downloads at the end of 2012. Today we have 20 million. Sramana: That’s pretty fast. May 2012 to December

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Sramana: What does your management team look like today? Varun Shoor: We have four members of our senior management team. Raghav Arora is our VP of Operations. He was the first employee of Kayako and was a school mate of mine. He has helped the company grow from inception. James Edwards is based out of

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Thought Leaders in Online Education: Jim Donohue, Chief Product Officer, Cengage Learning (Part 4)

Jim Donohue: Professors traditionally have known what students are doing. They are able to say to a student, “Oh, you flunked this test. You’ve got to study more.” But we haven’t done a very good job, as an industry, to really tell students where they stand. So, we’re building a whole suite of analytical tools.

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Bootstrapping an App to $10 Million in Revenue: Christophe Bach, CEO of TextMe (Part 4)

Sramana: After you launched the product in three months, what kind of ramp did you see in terms of adoption? Christophe: That’s a long time ago. Julien, have you seen the historical figures lately? Julien: Yeah, I did. If you talk about 2011, I want to say the numbers would look small for now. I

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Trend Spotting: Serial Entrepreneurs Are Self-Financing Ventures

As you know, we have an extensive coverage of entrepreneurs and their business strategies on the 1Mby1M blog. This coverage has been going on since 2006, so today, this is where you will find the most comprehensive selection of entrepreneur case studies. This steadfast tracking of entrepreneurship gives us a unique view into the trends

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Bootstrapped Journey of a Child Entrepreneur in India: Varun Shoor, CEO of Kayako (Part 6)

Sramana: How much have you been able to accomplish with your new engineering team when it comes to maturing your product? Varun Shoor: I personally believe the product is evolving. Our engineering practices can still use additional maturing although my teams believe we have evolved to a point where we are able to really leverage

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