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Sramana Mitra: It sounds like your strategy is to go for the unicorns, is that right? Fabrice Grinda: Yes and no. With all of the companies that we invested in, we want them to have the control to be a billion-dollar company. If you are building a venture startup, you need to be able to
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George Anderson: Here is a lesson I learned. It’s very relevant to bootstrapping using services. I said, “How do we take this business to the next level?” The answer was to go out and raise some capital. I hired Jeffries and we put together an information memorandum and a package, and we went out and
If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Katie Echeverry, CEO and Founder of Unique Vintage, had a pharmaceutical sales job that she used to bootstrap with a paycheck for 5 years, before quitting to go full-time with her business, Unique Vintage. More stories like this can be found
Sramana Mitra: Let’s do some examples of what you’ve invested in that are representative of your investment thesis. Pick one that you are proud of and one that would tell us more about your company. Fabrice Grinda: First of all, we are thesis-driven, so we think through and ask ourselves, “Okay, where is the world
Sramana Mitra: How long did you do the high-end data teaching business? George Anderson: Up until 9/11. My learning center was in Broad Street in Lower Manhattan. They called it the Silicon Valley. I was in the information technology center during 9/11. 9/11 put it out of business. Sramana Mitra: Did your technology consulting business
Despite the explosion of sales tech, attainment numbers for sales teams are at an abysmal 52%. This means organizations are making up for lack of planning alignment by hiring double the sales resources they need. To address this problem, Fullcast was founded in 2017 by Dharmesh Singh and Bala Balabaskaran as a platform for growing companies to streamline go-to-market planning and