Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Credit Card Processing Business Payscape

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Payscape CEO Adam Bloomston had scaled a very simple business diligently and systematically when we spoke in 2014. Have a look at how. Payscape was acquired by Payroc in 2019. Sramana Mitra: I want to go to the very beginning of your personal story, where are

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Navigating Multiple Product Pivots: Jebbit CEO Tom Coburn (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Where did the $250,000 capital come from? Tom Coburn: Our first investor was Dharmesh who’s the co-founder and CTO of HubSpot.  Sramana Mitra: I just spoke with Dharmesh this morning. You met Dharmesh through Highland? Tom Coburn: No. We’re very thankful to Dharmesh for being our first investor. That spurred a lot of

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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later: Ben Hodson, CEO of JobNimbus (Part 1)

Ben is a serial entrepreneur with a long experience in bootstrapping and fundraising. Read on to see how he has navigated his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

178th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Tom Coburn, Jebbit

Tom Coburn, Co-founder CEO at Jebbit, discusses a very important aspect of building a product company: pivots.

Navigating Multiple Product Pivots: Jebbit CEO Tom Coburn (Part 1)

Tom discusses a very important aspect of building a product company: pivots. 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? Tom Coburn: I was born in a suburb outside of Boston, Massachusetts. It’s where the Boston Marathon

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Building HubSpot to a Unicorn: Dharmesh Shah’s Amazing Entrepreneurial Journey (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How many years did it take you through the $500 million to the IPO? Dharmesh Shah: A little over seven years. Sramana Mitra: This is basically what VC’s are looking for – to go from zero to $100 million in five to seven years. Not every entrepreneur has a venture that is amenable

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459th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Tobias Seidl, STOKR

Tobias Seidl, Co-founder at STOKR, is building a FinTech company from Luxembourg. Much is happening by way of innovation in fund raising exchanges in the field of FinTech.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped from London, Went Public and Scaled to $450M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke with Founder Mark Lancaster in 2014, very few technology companies had been built from the UK. ARM and Autonomy come to mind. Here’s the story of a company called SDL. Sramana: Mark, let’s start with the beginning of your personal story. Where are

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