Best of Bootstrapping: Waveform CEO Bootstraps to $8M

Waveform CEO Sina Khanifar started tinkering with bootstrapped entrepreneurship way back in college. It has certainly paid off. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Sina Khanifar: I was born in Iran. We moved to the UK

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April 16 – 481st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 481st FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, April 16, 2020, 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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Roundtable Recap: April 9 – Business as Usual

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Ritesh Agarwal, Co-founder and Managing Director CerraCap Ventures, a deep tech focused early stage firm. EcoinAs for entrepreneur pitches, we had Abhyuday Das and Krishna Yogi from Bangalore, India, pitching Ecoin, acryptocurrency venture. DepartDiscountNext, Zoe Frantzeskakis from East Lansing, Michigan, pitched DepartDiscount, an app to help

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480th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 480th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, April 9, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!

480th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting In 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

Today’s 480th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, April 9 at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. PASSWORD: startup All are welcome!

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Shruti Gandhi of Array Ventures (Part 3)

Shruti Gandhi: The reason we don’t talk about our fund size is because of LP issues. We are a smaller fund. Those smaller exits are great for us in terms of returning the capital. Oftentimes when you start a company and you’re thinking about a $15 million exit, that could be your ceiling in some

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Bootstrapping to $8 Million: Sina Khanifar, CEO of Waveform (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk a little bit about how you built the pieces of the business. Let’s talk about the retail e-commerce piece. It sounds like there is inventory involved. Did you finance the inventory through some bank, or did you just do it organically? Sina Khanifar: That’s where seed capital came in. We didn’t

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Rendezvous Online Recording: January 28, 2020

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: Rendezvous Online with Sramana Mitra 1.28.20