Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What did you do when that aha moment came? Ryan Chan: I hadn’t talked to this friend of mine in almost three years. He said, “Ryan, I will give you a little bit of money if you quit your job today and start working on Upkeep.” I did. I quit my job working

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Abhishek, you wanted to talk about one of your companies that already had an exit. Abhishek Srivastava: This is a company called Shield Square, a cyber security company. They had built a cloud-based, real-time bot intervention solution. All online digital asset, whether it’s e-commerce, travel site, or financial services, have been constantly facing

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: So you started building. Did you still have your day job? Was this on the side? Ryan Chan: This was a hobby on the side. I did this from 6PM to 10 PM, three times a week. I love learning things. I love building. For me, it was fun. I loved doing this.

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Do you want to talk about any other company? Sateesh Andra: I’ll switch to an India team company. Abhishek managed the company. He had an exit in the first three years. It was a cyber security company that’s selling in Europe, US, and India. But there’s this India-themed FinTech company called Kissht. They

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June 13th – 446th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 446th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 13, 2019, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea. You’ll receive straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and answers to any of your

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Bootstrapping With A Paycheck to YCombinator and $10M Series A: Ryan Chan, CEO of UpKeep (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Ryan took a hobby project that he bootstrapped with a paycheck and managed to get into YCombinator. From there, he raised a $10M Series A from a top-tier Silicon Valley firm, Emergence Capital. Excellent execution thus far. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start from the very beginning of

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sateesh Andra of Endiya Partners (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: As you probably know, my background is in computer architecture. I was in the parallel computing part of MIT’s projects back in the mid-90s. Funding for chip companies has gone down tremendously. Almost no one in the Indian venture ecosystem is willing or equipped to do chips. I’m actually thrilled to hear that

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Dispel CEO Ethan Schmertzler (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Can you suggest areas that we should cover in this discussion that the audience that we’re speaking to should know about in what you’re doing? Ethan Schmertzler: We’re not the only company that’s starting to explore the idea of using virtual machines as dynamic disposable environments for protecting assets. You can think of

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