Bootstrapping by Services from Wisconsin: SignalWire CEO Anthony Minessale (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: What is that more? If you were to compare with Twilio, how do you compete? Where can you really make a differentiated value happen? Anthony Minessale: Twilio is probably the first to admit that there doesn’t have to be competition to exist in this market. Head to head with Twilio, we definitely intentionally

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Thursday, February 20 – 473rd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 473rd FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, February 20, 2020, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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 by Services from Wisconsin: SignalWire CEO Anthony Minessale (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Where are you finding the most traction right now? Anthony Minessale: Something that’s really big right now is that the customer has learned how to use VoIP. The carrier industry is very specific. It mostly is the idea of high-density SIP traffic.

Bill.com has a Super IPO

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Scaling to a $700M Exit: Zain Jaffer, CEO of Vungle (Part 6)

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Bootstrapping by Services from Wisconsin: SignalWire CEO Anthony Minessale (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: It sounds like you switched from that open-source based services company to a product company. That product company is SignalWire? Anthony Minessale: Yes. Sramana Mitra: Did you build SignalWire entirely by bootstrapping with services or did you raise money?