Bootstrapping Using Services to an Awesome Business Model: Inspyrus CEO Nilay Banker (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How long did you stay at Oracle? Nilay Banker: I was at Oracle for 10 years. On the first day of my 11th year, I decided it was enough. I had a lot of fun. I actually had a great opportunity to work with Larry Ellison for an extended period of time. At

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Bootstrapping Using Services to an Awesome Business Model: Inspyrus CEO Nilay Banker (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’ve shared many Bootstrapping Using Services case studies with you here, as well as in the book on that topic. This one is particularly interesting because of the absolutely awesome business model that Nilay and his team have implemented. Read on! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to

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Surviving Near-Death Experiences and Going Public in London: Michael Hughes, co-CEO of LoopUp (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Where are you now? What are the metrics of 2016? Michael Hughes: We went public in the summer of 2016 on the London Stock Exchange. Our revenue for 2016 is about £12.8 million. We will actually be releasing our 2016 results in a couple of weeks. We have to do an announcement that

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