Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup from Utah: KURU CEO Bret Rasmussen (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. To succeed in e-commerce today, you need to look for unserved niches with unique products. Sraman a Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

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Catching Up On Readings: IT Spending 2021

This report from Gartner projects worldwide IT spending to grow 4% to $3.8 trillion in 2021 from $3.6 trillion in 2020, down 5.4% from 2019. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping with Services to $20M: Visiquate CEO Brian Robertson (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: What revenue level are you operating at now? Brian Robertson: Our revenue is over $20 million and growing at a range of 25% to 40% with our current platform. We are at the point of raising now and growing equity. I wanted to skip the traditional VC phase. I never saw a term

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Bootstrapping with Services to $20M: Visiquate CEO Brian Robertson (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How much of your old customer base from MedeFinance came into Visiquate?  Brian Robertson: Not too many. Mede is still a friend of mine and I’m a shareholder, so we were in a situation that just sometimes happens. Sometimes you have certain relationships that follow you wherever you go. I only needed a

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Colors: Les Couleurs de Corse, Nonza

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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Rollercoaster on a Bike: Zagster CEO Tim Ericson (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Did you keep the 250 customers after generating another $10M on top of what you earned before? Tim Ericson: Exactly.  Sramana Mitra: COVID hits. What happens next?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping a SaaS Company with a Paycheck and Scaling

I love doing stories of entrepreneurs who are long-time readers of the 1Mby1M blog. Kovai CEO Saravana Kumar is one of them. This is a wonderful story of how he is scaling a SaaS company from Coimbatore! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where were you born and raised? What kind

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November 19 – 510th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 510th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 19, 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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