Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Help me out with one piece of this story. In an entrepreneur journey, the first time you’re doing it without personal money is a different ball game than when you have made money and are doing it a second time. By the time you come to Zimit, you had money. It’s a different

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Building a Fintech Company from Luxembourg: STOKR CEO Tobias Seidl (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Much is happening by way of innovation in fund raising exchanges in the field of FinTech. Here is a story from Europe. 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

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176th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Alex Armitage, Nectarine Credit

Alex Armitage, CEO and Founder at Nectarine Credit, discusses a very interesting niche context within which he’s building a wonderful FinTech company. One of the biggest trends in FinTech is digitizing and speeding up the credit application and approval process. Another trend is using proprietary data to bring new financing options to cater to different

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $10M: Zimit CEO James Cramer (Part 1)

Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Read on for yet another fantastic textbook case study. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised?

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Building a Unicorn and Establishing the Customer Success Category: Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight (Part 5)

Nick Mehta: The business went from an unattractive investment from a financial investor’s point of view to a highly attractive one. We are one of those companies that has a lot of long-term potential because we are the main player in the space. I never like to say that we own the category, but so

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Catching Up On Readings: Future of Mobile Wallets

This feature from Nasdaq looks at how the rise of mobile wallet and digital banking apps have taken over the analog wallet. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Pandio Founders Gideon Rubin, CEO and Josh Odmark, CTO (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Do you see Cassandra a lot? Josh Odmark: Yes, it’s been popping up a lot more lately when it comes to machine learning because of its read and write speed. People treat it both as a traditional datastore and also an intermediary. With data science, there’s typically layers to your model or a

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Building a Unicorn and Establishing the Customer Success Category: Nick Mehta, CEO of Gainsight (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch topics and talk a bit about your financing strategy. I know that you did something recently. Talk me through the whole financial strategy.  Nick Mehta: That is a big part of our success too. It’s expensive to create a category. You have to do these events and hire people. The scales

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