Bootstrapping to $100 Million Using Services from The Netherlands: Pierre and Fred Guelen, Planon Software (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: We have to capture the story of how you put one foot before the other. You said you started the company right out of school. How did you get it off the ground? What was the premise of the company? What were you going to do and how did you get started? Pierre

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Bootstrapping a Niche E-Commerce Business to Exit: Dara Greaney, CEO of BuyAutoParts.com (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Dara bootstrapped BuyAutoParts to $54 million in profitable revenue and sold the company to private equity. Yet another story of success in the niche e-commerce domain. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your personal journey. Where are you from? Where were you born,

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292nd Roundtable Recording On Feb. 4, 2016: With Raj De Datta, CEO of BloomReach

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Roundtable Recap: February 4 – Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later with Raj De Datta, CEO of BloomReach

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Raj De Datta, co-founder and CEO of e-commerce personalization technology firm, BloomReach. The company bootstrapped to over $5M in revenue before raising its first financing from Sequoia. Today, it is well on its way to become a publicly traded company in a couple of years. Raj

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Bootstrapping to $15 Million: David Braun, CEO of TemplateMonster (Part 5)

David Braun: The next challenge was when the customer acquisition cost was starting to double every year. Since we were now working with the platforms, there were a few challenges to initiate the major change in the release. In a year, we were producing 3,000 to 4,000 products. We had to make a decision on whether

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Bootstrapping to $100 Million Using Services from The Netherlands: Pierre and Fred Guelen, Planon Software (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Pierre and Fred Guelen have bootstrapped a very significant company from The Netherlands using the bootstrapping using services principle. Read on and learn how. Sramana Mitra: We’re going to start at the very beginning of your personal journeys. One of you please start by telling us

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292nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 292nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, February 4, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join.

292nd Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 292nd FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 4, at 8:00 a.m. PST/11:00 a.m. EST/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!