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Bootstrapping to $45 Million from Chicago: RKON CEO Jeff Mullarkey (Part 1)

Posted on Saturday, Jul 18th 2015

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Jeff has built a Managed Service Provider (MSP) business that he now wants to take to $500 million or a billion dollars in revenue. Read how he did it, and what he plans to do in the future. Sramana Mitra:

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Bootstrapping All The Way: Infinitely Virtual CEO Adam Stern (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Jul 17th 2015

Sramana Mitra: What is the reception for the concept of hosting a virtualized infrastructure in your client base? What was the level of awareness? Were you doing missionary selling? How are you getting customers for that particular value proposition? Adam Stern: We did talk to existing customers about what we were doing, and only a

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later from Utah: HireVue CEO Mark Newman (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Jul 17th 2015

Sramana Mitra: You’re doing this all from Utah. Is that still the structure of the company? Mark Newman: Yes, 60% of our team is in Utah. 30% is spread throughout the United States. These are people that work from home. Then, 10% of our team is global. Sramana Mitra: What has your experience been like

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Roundtable Recap: July 16 – We Can’t Help Everyone

Posted on Friday, Jul 17th 2015

During this week’s roundtable, we had four entrepreneur pitches. Boibanit First up, Arunabh Parihar from Mumbai, India, pitched Boibanit, a food delivery service for small towns in India. We discussed market penetration strategy, prioritization, market sizing, and financing. Desibol InfoTech Solutions Next, Shailendra Hanumante from Mumbai, India pitched Desibol InfoTech Solutions, an India-based off-shore telesales

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July 23 – 269th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Jul 17th 2015

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 269th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, July 23, 2015, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any

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268th Roundtable Recording On July 16, 2015

Posted on Friday, Jul 17th 2015

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here:

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Vacasa Co-Founder Cliff Johnson (Part 7)

Posted on Friday, Jul 17th 2015

Sramana Mitra: At this point in 2015, what is the capitalization of the company? Have you continued to build it organically or have you taken financing? How did you scale the company? Cliff Johnson: We’ve continued to build organically. We’re happy and profitable right now. That’s a good place to be. We do end up

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Bootstrapping All The Way: Infinitely Virtual CEO Adam Stern (Part 1)

Posted on Thursday, Jul 16th 2015

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Adam has used some equipment financing, and plans to use more debt financing, to scale Infinitely Virtual. He has not used any venture capital or private equity, but has built a substantial company. Read on to learn how. Sramana Mitra:

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