Bootstrapping with Paycheck to $15 Million from Tennessee: Gene Caballero, CEO of GreenPal (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is a fantastic story of a founder duo bootstrapping with a paycheck, now growing from $5M to $15M in one year, with a virtual team of freelancers. Your classic 21st century internet business. No outside financing whatsoever! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning

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NetApp Excellerator Startups Awarded Scholarships to the 1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator

The One Million by One Million (1Mby1M) global virtual accelerator is yet another benefit granted to NetApp startups through a partnership between the two companies. For the second time this year, NetApp has awarded six startups one-year scholarships to the 1Mby1M Premium program, offering them the advantages of access to the 1Mby1M online curriculum, weekly online mentoring

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Catching Up On Readings: IT Spending 2019

This report from Gartner says that global IT spending will grow 3.2% to $3.8 trillion in 2019 driven by 8.3% growth in entreprise software. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Neil Vaswani, CEO of Corestream (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Besides the roughly $2 million you raised, did you raise any other funding? Neil Vaswani: We had some angel funding throughout the way at different points. Sramana Mitra: What is the total amount of money that you’ve raised? Neil Vaswani: Probably around $3 million or so. Sramana Mitra: What kind of revenue run

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Building a Fast Growth, Cutting-Edge Insurance Brokerage: Karn Saroya, CEO of Cover (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Can you explain to me how this works? Is this a completely online process? Are people making full decisions online or at some point, somebody on the phone is talking to the customers? Karn Saroya: The average basket size at Cover is $1,700. That can be a meaningful part of somebody’s after-tax income.

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Capital Efficient Entrepreneurship: Neil Vaswani, CEO of Corestream (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: These are large enterprises? Neil Vaswani: All sizes. ADP typically plays in the middle market. The business unit that we’re partnered with has a sweet spot of 1,000 to 10,000, but really, 3,000 to 7,000 is where most of the groups come in. Thus began the next part of our journey – third

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Dan Schawbel

Dan Schawbel is a New York Times bestselling author, Partner and Research Director at Future Workplace, and the Founder of both Millennial Branding and WorkplaceTrends.com. His new book is called Back to Human: How Great Leaders Create Connection in the Age of Isolation.

Building a Fast Growth, Cutting-Edge Insurance Brokerage: Karn Saroya, CEO of Cover (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: You raised $3.1 million. You finished Y Combinator and you’re walking out with a great network. What happens next? Karn Saroya: From there on, it was about proving out the model and removing dependencies. When we left Y Combinator, we were a lead generation business. All we wanted to show was that significant

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