A Serial Entrepreneur’s Awesome Journey from Austin, Texas: Jason Cohen, CTO of WP Engine (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Jason has done three bootstrapped startups, sold two of those, and then bootstrapped a fourth one to heavy duty venture financing. This is a great interview with a pro who knows what he is doing at many levels. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning

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Startup Idea to Leverage Good Technology Writers

As I was writing the previous post, A Startup Idea To Leverage Good Writers, it occurred to me that explaining complicated technology products is a skill in great demand. The affiliate business model I proposed for e-commerce would apply just as well to, for instance, SaaS products, Cyber Security products, and many other technology products and

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Catching Up On Readings: TNW Europe 2016

This feature from The Next Web looks at some of the top IoT hacks at the TNW Europe 2016 Hack Battle held in Amsterdam last week. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

A Startup Design-a-thon Performance Depends on Quantity, Quality and Variety

By Guest Author Soren Petersen New Entrepreneurial Ventures are all about speed and nowhere is this more true than at design-a-thons. Originating from hack-a-thons in the world of programming, design-a-thons are a one, two or three day marathon, where participating teams build a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) or, at the very least, a concept simulation

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Applying Inspirational Design Thinking to Tackle Breakthrough Innovation

By Guest Author Soren Petersen A society’s progress depends upon the quality of the questions it asks itself and to know what questions to ask today in order to secure a sustainable future.

Bootstrapping Using Services from Ireland: Shane Evans, CEO of ScrapingHub (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How long did it take you to hit the $1 million mark? Shane Evans: I think we would have come just under it in 2013. In 2014, we would have been $2 million. Sramana Mitra: In 2013, you were at $1 million revenue. At that point, what was the distribution between professional services

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Thursday, June 9 – 308th 1M/1M Mentoring Roundtable For Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 308th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, June 9, 2016, 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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Startups – Designing for Triple-Bottom-Line Innovations

By Guest Author Soren Petersen Startups tackling sustainability are now in vogue, with organic farming, clean energy and mediation platforms for the sharing-economy. Whether they are rooted in a sincere desire to improve our world or just interested in lip service remains to be seen. If the sustainability performance from established firms is any indicator

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