Bootstrapping by Piggybacking from Romania: 123FormBuilder CEO Florin Cornianu (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  You may have been reading our PaaS coverage, as well as Bootstrapping by Piggybacking posts. Well, Florin has built a $6M SaaS business using this methodology with just $1M in funding. What’s more, he has done it entirely from Romania and sells to largely a US

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Catching Up On Readings: Future of Work

This feature from TechCrunch discusses the opportunities in venture capital for investment in remote work solutions. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

From a Security VAR to a $10 Million ARR SaaS Product Business: Andrew Plato, CEO of Anitian (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: If I were you, I’d take more of that responsibility on the fact that you didn’t necessarily know how to explain it to investors. If you did, this is not so difficult to understand. Andrew Plato: I suppose. It is true that it took a lot of iterations to figure out how to

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From a Security VAR to a $10 Million ARR SaaS Product Business: Andrew Plato, CEO of Anitian (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Do you have about 50 customers right now? Andrew Plato: That sounds right. We’ve got a mixture of some on our platform. It’s not quite 50. It’s probably in the low 20’s. We’d 12 on the platform as of this year. Plus some existing business. Sramana Mitra: These 20 odd customers have all

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Colors: Cherry Blossoms, Night

I’m publishing this series on LinkedIn called Colors to explore a topic that I care deeply about: the Renaissance Mind. I am just as passionate about entrepreneurship, technology, and business, as I am about art and culture. In this series, I will typically publish a piece of art – one of my paintings – and

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Garrett Goldberg of Bee Partners (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: How much money had gone into the company at the point of exit? Garrett Goldberg: Probably around $60 million. They raised Series A, a Series A extension, and then Series B. Sramana Mitra: Interesting. A question about real estate since that’s a background you have. What do you see happening given that we

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Best of Bootstrapping: Best Tactic for B2B Startups

What is the best bootstrapping tactic for B-to-B startups? Solve an acute customer pain. Get paid an advance to do so. Leeyo Software CEO Jagan Reddy followed this strategy to bootstrap to $20 million. He built a niche software that solved a very specific problem and started selling it to enterprises for a lot of

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487th Roundtable Recording on May 28, 2020: With Christian Czernich, Round2 Capital Partners

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 487th 1Mby1M Roundtable May 28, 2020: With Christian Czernich, Round2 Capital Partners