Rendezvous Online Recording: March 10, 2020

Some audience questions answered by Sramana: • What have you learned from mentoring startups? • Can you give an example of a bootstrapped company being acquired with a substantial profit for the founders? Rendezvous Online with Sramana Mitra 3.10.20

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Rendezvous Online Recording: March 3, 2020

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Bootstrapping to Exit: Imagine Easy Solutions CEO Neal Taparia (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Why don’t we step through the journey.  Neal Taparia: When we started working on it full-time, I had mentioned that we benefited from a lot of organic growth. What was really interesting is as we focused on it full-time, we were able to understand all these ways to increase ad revenue.