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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Parthib Srivathsan of Companyon Ventures (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Jun 1st 2020

Responding to a popular request, we are now sharing transcripts of our investor podcast interviews in this new series. The following interview with Parthib Srivathsan was recorded in May 2020. Parthib Srivathsan, Co-Founder and Head of Platform at Companyon Ventures, discusses his firm’s investment thesis.

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Bootstrapping by Piggybacking from Romania: 123FormBuilder CEO Florin Cornianu (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Jun 1st 2020

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  You may have been reading our PaaS coverage, as well as Bootstrapping by Piggybacking posts. Well, Florin has built a $6M SaaS business using this methodology with just $1M in funding. What’s more, he has done it entirely from Romania and sells to largely a US

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Catching Up On Readings: Future of Work

Posted on Sunday, May 31st 2020

This feature from TechCrunch discusses the opportunities in venture capital for investment in remote work solutions. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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From a Security VAR to a $10 Million ARR SaaS Product Business: Andrew Plato, CEO of Anitian (Part 7)

Posted on Sunday, May 31st 2020

Sramana Mitra: If I were you, I’d take more of that responsibility on the fact that you didn’t necessarily know how to explain it to investors. If you did, this is not so difficult to understand. Andrew Plato: I suppose. It is true that it took a lot of iterations to figure out how to

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From a Security VAR to a $10 Million ARR SaaS Product Business: Andrew Plato, CEO of Anitian (Part 6)

Posted on Saturday, May 30th 2020

Sramana Mitra: Do you have about 50 customers right now? Andrew Plato: That sounds right. We’ve got a mixture of some on our platform. It’s not quite 50. It’s probably in the low 20’s. We’d 12 on the platform as of this year. Plus some existing business. Sramana Mitra: These 20 odd customers have all

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Garrett Goldberg of Bee Partners (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, May 29th 2020

Sramana Mitra: How much money had gone into the company at the point of exit? Garrett Goldberg: Probably around $60 million. They raised Series A, a Series A extension, and then Series B. Sramana Mitra: Interesting. A question about real estate since that’s a background you have. What do you see happening given that we

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Best of Bootstrapping: Best Tactic for B2B Startups

Posted on Friday, May 29th 2020

What is the best bootstrapping tactic for B-to-B startups? Solve an acute customer pain. Get paid an advance to do so. Leeyo Software CEO Jagan Reddy followed this strategy to bootstrap to $20 million. He built a niche software that solved a very specific problem and started selling it to enterprises for a lot of

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487th Roundtable Recording on May 28, 2020: With Christian Czernich, Round2 Capital Partners

Posted on Friday, May 29th 2020

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording here: 487th 1Mby1M Roundtable May 28, 2020: With Christian Czernich, Round2 Capital Partners

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