Catching Up On Readings: FinTech 250

This report from CB Insights ranks the 250 most promising FinTech companies in the world that have together raised $73.8 billion in funding since 2016. It also provides insights into the leading categories and trends in the industry. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How about getting your first product out? Were you bootstrapping to get to the first product? Lloyed Lobo: We bootstrapped to about $10 million ARR. We just raised a round of funding around Thanksgiving last year. Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk through the early part. You bootstrapped and you had validation because of your

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Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: You have a wonderful positioning because anything that has a compliance angle to it has a very mission-critical purchase cycle. You must have experienced pretty high-velocity customer building. Sarva Srinivasan: That’s correct. In parallel, we started building EZOPS. As part of our engagement, we were talking with the clients and their challenges. Oftentimes,

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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 2)

Lloyed Lobo: R&D tax credit is a beachhead for us. My co-founder used to run this at KPMG. He was a manager at the R&D tax credit team. He said that it’s a manual and broken process. At the end of the year, we would go to companies and say, “Give us your shoebox.” But

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Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You were doing this out of Chicago? Sarva Srinivasan: New Jersey. All three of us are from New Jersey. We started off in a small office back in January 2014. Sramana Mitra: All these 20 clients, you serviced with just the three of you?

Best of Bootstrapping: Firmex Scaled with Angel Money in Canada

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke in 2015, Joel Lessem was scaling a profitable company in Toronto called Firmex, and had only spent $4 million in angel money to get to almost $10 million in revenue. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your story. Where are you

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November 4 – 552nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 552nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 4, 2021, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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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548th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Lloyed Lobo, Co-Founder of Boast.ai (Part 1)

Lloyed Lobo, Co-founder and President of Boast.ai, discusses his failures and eventual success building AI startups. Wonderful conversation! Sramana Mitra: Welcome Lloyed. I’m looking forward to know you and understanding what you’re doing.  Lloyed Lobo: Thanks for having me.