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

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

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)

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

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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478th Roundtable Recording on March 26, 2020: With Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 478th 1Mby1M Roundtable March 26, 2020: With Shruti Gandhi, Array Ventures

Roundtable Recap: March 26 – It’s Therapeutic to Discuss Business in These Troubled Times

This morning, we had an excellent roundtable discussing businesses from around the world. First, we had as our guest Shruti Gandhi, General Partner and Founding Engineer, Array Ventures, a fund focused on deep tech, enterprise-facing ventures. Edfone As for entrepreneur pitches, we started with Nishanth Singh from Troy, Michigan, pitching Edfone, an EdTech venture. We

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Elastic Investing in Product Upgrades for Enterprises

The global Enterprise Search market is estimated to grow 13% annually to $9 billion by the year 2026 from $3.72 billion in 2019. The continued adoption of cloud computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) are driving the adoption of hosted enterprise search solutions across organizations. Elastic (NYSE: ESTC) is a leading player in the

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Serial Entrepreneurship in Ad and Content Networks: inPowered CEO Peyman Nilforoush (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the name of your ad network? Peyman Nilforoush: NetShelter.  Sramana Mitra: What years were these? Peyman Nilforoush: From late 1999 to 2008. In 2008, we raised $26 million in venture capital. We moved to San Francisco in 2009 and started building out the company and scaling it out. We ended up

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