Catching Up On Readings: WWDC 2020

This feature from Wired looks at the major updates from Apple expected at this year’s virtual edition of Worldwide Development Conference. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later to $120M from Colorado: Madwire CEO JB Kellogg (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long did you continue in this services mode? JB Kellogg: From 2009 to 2012. Sramana Mitra: What revenue level did you reach in this mode? JB Kellogg: I think that in 2012, our revenue was somewhere around $5 million. 

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later to $120M from Colorado: Madwire CEO JB Kellogg (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: How did you acquire customers for your digital marketing? JB Kellogg: We always say that we eat our own dog food. Everything that we do for ourselves is what we sell to our customers. We started doing digital marketing for ourselves which generated leads. We would call those leads and open those accounts.

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrap to +$10M First, Raise Money Later

ConnectLeader CEO Senraj Soundar has bootstrapped his company to over $10 million in revenue. We love stories like this that reinforce our philosophy: “Do not go to VCs as beggars, go as kings!” Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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490th Roundtable Recording on June 18, 2020

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 490th 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs June 18, 2020

Roundtable Recap: June 18 – Focused Startups with Precise Problems to Solve

During this week’s roundtable, we had two entrepreneur presentations. Illogic.de First up was Markus Salamon from Reutlingen, Germany, pitching Illogic, a Machine Learning algorithm to predict the maintenance requirement of windmills. Jhamobi Technologies Next Prasanna Jha from Pune, India, pitched Jhamobi Technologies, a SaaS solution for schools to function as online entities in the post-Covid

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later to $120M from Colorado: Madwire CEO JB Kellogg (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This story discusses all sorts of interesting nuances, including DIFM vs. DIY. Read on. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

June 25 – 491st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 491st FREE online 1Mby1M mentoring roundtable on Thursday, June 25, 2020, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/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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