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Bootstrapping a Perishable Meat Business To Significant Scale: ButcherBox CEO Mike Salguero (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Mar 29th 2020

Sramana Mitra: What is the logistics of packaging this? What format are you shipping this in? Mike Salguero: It’s basically pre-portioned. If you get a 10-ounce Ribeye, you’re going to get it in a frozen package. Right before Kickstarter, we realized that people didn’t just want beef. They wanted chicken and pork as well. We

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Serial Entrepreneurship in Ad and Content Networks: inPowered CEO Peyman Nilforoush (Part 4)

Posted on Sunday, Mar 29th 2020

Sramana Mitra: What channels are most of your content distributed on? Is it social media? Is it Facebook? Peyman Nilforoush: We assumed the same thing, that most of it will be on Facebook. However, it’s very specific to the kind of content. For example, we have a lot of B2B clients. A lot of times

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Bootstrapping a Perishable Meat Business To Significant Scale: ButcherBox CEO Mike Salguero (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 28th 2020

Sramana Mitra: It’s so disheartening to see all these great businesses go through a Death by Overfunding. I’ve written extensively about this.  Mike Salguero: What’s funny is with this business, we haven’t raised any money. We are way bigger and way more successful. So much of the success and where we are right now is

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Serial Entrepreneurship in Ad and Content Networks: inPowered CEO Peyman Nilforoush (Part 3)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 28th 2020

Sramana Mitra: Are you talking about the category that Outbrain and Taboola have been in? Peyman Nilforoush: They are the ad networks.  Sramana Mitra: They were in the business of propagating and pushing content.

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Bootstrapping with Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company: Stefan Batory, CEO of Booksy (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, Mar 28th 2020

Sramana Mitra: You are in Chicago and Warsaw? Stefan Batory: Today we have offices in San Francisco, Chicago, Orlando, Tampa, and San Antonio in the US. We have offices in Warsaw and a few other cities across the country. We are also in Sao Paulo, Johannesburg, and in Madrid. These are the markets that we

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April 2 – 479th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Friday, Mar 27th 2020

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 479th FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 2, 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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Bootstrapping a Perishable Meat Business To Significant Scale: ButcherBox CEO Mike Salguero (Part 2)

Posted on Friday, Mar 27th 2020

Sramana Mitra: What were the business metrics with that $500,000 and with that $1.2 million? How was the business moving? Mike Salguero: When we first bought the website, it was a subscription business where the maker would pay an annual fee to be on the website. We scaled it pretty well. We had a whole

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstraps Using Services from Poland to a US SaaS Company

Posted on Friday, Mar 27th 2020

Booksy CEO Stefan Batory 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! Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the very beginning of your journey. Tell us where you’re from, where you were born, raised, and in what

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