Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can either one of you summarize Bikram’s background? Sarva Srinivasan: Bikram spent most of his time in banking. He graduated from Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago and then went on to work at McKinsey for a year or so. He then worked at Lehman, Goldman, and Citi. He comes from a background

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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Sandeep Sardana, Founder and General Partner at BluePointe Ventures. We had a terrific discussion on how we each look for a startup story through financial metrics. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 551st 1Mby1M Roundtable with Sandeep Sardana, BluePointe Ventures If you

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When we first announced the 1Mby1M mission of helping a million entrepreneurs reach a million dollars in annual revenue, we received a tremendous amount of interest from Sramana’s global community of readers. That was January 2010.  We created the 1Mby1M Ambassadors program to understand and support the needs of startup ecosystems around the world. In

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Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down into your own space. Talk to me about what are the key drivers and key customer pain points that you’re addressing. What are the trends within your space? Tell me about some of the white spaces within your segment where there is opportunity for innovation and where new entrepreneurs can

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Bootstrapping Using Services, then Raising $10M and Scaling to $16M: EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati (Part 1)

This is a text book case study of founders with deep domain knowledge in starting with services and then productizing, eventually raising institutional capital. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born? Where does your journey begin? 

Best of Bootstrapping: PhishMe was Bootstrapped Using Services First, Raised Money Later

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Following up on our ‘Bootstrapping Using Services‘ and ‘Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later’ case studies, here is the story of PhishMe, a cyber security company that has scaled nicely. Following my conversation with Co-founder Rohyt Belani in 2015, PhishMe was acquired by BlackRock in 2018. Sramana

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