Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Hotelplanner.com to $20M with Intelligent Financial Engineering

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Tim Hentschel, CEO of Hotelplanner.com, built an excellent company with quite unorthodox financial engineering decisions that have played out very well for him. Read on to learn some out-of-the-box thinking. Sramana Mitra: Where are you from? Where were your born,

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: OppFi CEO Jared Kaplan (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Is this a Software-as-a-Service that you sell to banks, or is it a two-sided marketplace that you plug banks into? Jared Kaplan: We would describe it as a service provided to banks. A bank hires us and asks us to do all the acquisitions.  Sramana Mitra: So you acquire loan customers on behalf

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Best of Bootstrapping: Discussing Investment Strategy With Deepak Jeevankumar, Dell Technologies Capital

If you have been bootstrapping and think you are ready for investors, you need to learn how investors think. First, please study our free Bootstrapping course and Investor Introductions page. Then start looking for entrepreneur – investor fit. Today I introduce you to Deepak Jeevankumar. Deepak Jeevankumar, Managing Director at Dell Technologies Capital, discusses his fund’s focus and preferences. You

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: OppFi CEO Jared Kaplan (Part 2)

Jared Kaplan: I was approached for a CEO job at OppFi. Those don’t come along every day, so I took a closer look. It had been started by a well-known family in Chicago called the Schwartz family. Ted Schwartz had built a successful call center business in the 90s called APAC Customer Services. His son,

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Wovenware COO Carlos Melendez (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Tell me about how you managed to build this company from Puerto Rico. Is there a university where AI talents are easily available in Puerto Rico? Carlos Melendez: Puerto Rico has the biggest engineering school in the Caribbean. I went to that school myself. The majority and, at some point, 100% of the

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Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Entrepreneur Bootstrapped Two Startups to Huge Revenue

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Oversee.net Founder and Manage.com Co-founder Fred Hsu bootstrapped two companies with huge amounts of revenue. The first, he sold to a private equity firm. The second was acquired by Criteo in 2018. We spoke in 2015, amazing story! Sramana Mitra:

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Thursday, March 4th – 521st 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 521st FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, March 4, 2021, 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 questions. Others

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: OppFi CEO Jared Kaplan (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Consumer credit is getting destroyed at a furious pace. OppFi helps credit-challenged borrowers access credit and heal their credit scores. Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce OppFi and yourself to our audience.