Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped TEOCO to $175M with Services

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  There is, of course, a myth that you cannot build a large company by bootstrapping. What a total pot of crxp! Meet TEOCO Founder CEO Atul Jain, and get your preconceptions checked and readjusted. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Rajeev Singh-Morales, Founder and Managing Partner at Alma Mundi Ventures (Part 1)

Rajeev Singh-Morales, Founder and Managing Partner at Alma Mundi Ventures, discusses the Europe – US bridge for tech startups. Sramana Mitra: Your name is so interesting. It seems like there is a whole story in your name and your firm’s name. Do you want to start with a little bit of background?

Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What period of time did you do that mode of existence of doing consulting to pay down your debt?  Ben Hodson: That was from about 2008 to 2012. During that time, I started a bunch of smaller companies that tried different things, but I made most of my money off of consulting. None

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Catching Up On Readings: FinTech Q2’21

This report from CBInsights analyzes the trends of funding, deals, and exits in the FinTech sector in the second quarter of this year. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

539th Roundtable Recording with Geoff Ralston, Y Combinator

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 539th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable with Geoff Ralston, Y Combinator

Navigating Multiple Product Pivots: Jebbit CEO Tom Coburn (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: That means that you now had to work with customer who had physical locations. Tom Coburn: No, a lot of these were still digital brands. A lot of our customers do have physical locations too, but these were digital experiences you could do no matter where you were. Sramana Mitra: What did that

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the 2004 timeframe when you were leaving this company. When you left, what did you do? Ben Hodson: I had the entrepreneur bug. I was saying, “Oh my gosh, I really want to do another company, but I need to find a problem that I believe in and care

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539th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Geoff Ralston, Y Combinator

Geoff Ralston is President of Y Combinator. We had a terrific discussion on what we each are seeing in the startup ecosystem.