Bootstrapping with Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company: Stefan Batory, CEO of Booksy (Part 1)

Stefan started a software development company in Poland with a few other partners. Today, he’s running a high-growth, VC-funded SaaS + marketplace business in the US. Awesome journey!

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Catching Up On Readings: Boom in Remote-First SaaS

This feature from TechCrunch looks at how the coronavirus pandemic has led to a surge in usage of remote-first software tools like Zoom, FreeConferenceCall, LogMeIn etc. For this week’s posts click on the paragraph links.

March 12 – 476th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 476th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, March 12, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/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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Best of Bootstrapping: CEO Bootstraps Using Services to Millions from Russia

We’ve discussed Bootstrapping Using Services extensively over the years. Ecwid CEO Ruslan Fazlyev used eLance (not Upwork) to source service projects, then built, first a platform+services business that scaled to over $10 million in revenue. Then he spun off a pure play e-commerce platform business that now has over a million merchants using it. Revenue

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Node International CEO Neil Gurnhill (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’m going to switch the line of questioning a little bit and ask you for some insights into the broader space of cyber insurance. Can you identify where there are open problems and areas where new entrepreneurs could potentially start new companies?

Roundtable Recap: March 5 – Do Not Spray and Pray

During this week’s roundtable, we had an extensive discussion on Positioning. Pebble Distributed Ledger Technology Our entrepreneur pitch was by Deepansh Singe from Kerala, India. He pitched Pebble Distributed Ledger Technology. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 475th 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs March 5, 2020

Bootstrapped Entrepreneurship from Estonia: Lauri Kinkar, CEO of Messente (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Estonia has made huge progress in building a startup ecosystem. Can you talk a little bit about what has enabled that? What are the highlights of the ecosystem? Lauri Kinkar: We have to take a few steps back. Back when Estonia regained its independence in the early 90’s, it was a unique situation.

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Node International CEO Neil Gurnhill (Part 3)

Neil Gurnhill: Secondly, we bring in managed service providers to join us in the conversation. Depending on how that conversation goes, the insured would contract directly with the service provider. They would become better insured for us that leads to less losses. The insured is more cyber resilient in that approach.