Roundtable Recap: January 6 – Bootstrapping to Exit and Bootstrapping Products Using Services

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Deepak Balakrishna, Co-founder CEO of Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. Deepak was in the 1Mby1M program, and I had introduced him to Qualys. We reviewed his lessons from the trenches, steering a Bootstrapping to Exit transaction. CMD As for entrepreneur pitch, we had Bijay Mitra

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Today’s 558th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, January 6, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. Click HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Bootstrapping by Piggybacking: Evenica CEO Sadek Ali (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: They replaced you as the CEO. Sadek Ali: They tried to. I was the Founder and CTO. My business partner was the CEO. They hired a CEO. Sramana Mitra: The business got replaced by their CEO. Sadek Ali: Yes. Sramana Mitra: That didn’t go well.

Building a 2-sided Farm to Table Marketplace from Indiana: Nick Carter, CEO of Market Wagon (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What happens when COVID strikes? Nick Carter: Everything in our company is measured on week-over-week sales. I can remember my co-founder texting me one Sunday afternoon saying, “We had a nice week today.” The sales volume grew 600% in one week. It’s because everybody had to stay home. They needed delivery. The traditional

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1Mby1M Incubation Radar 2022: OneNDF, New Delhi, India

OneNDF is a small business loan marketplace that handles all the loan requirements of SMBs and specializes in Secured Loans. It started off as an offline loan marketplace in 2013. It launched its video powered loan marketplace in August 2021 to provide SMBs access to credit facilities through technology. It has 95 lenders and has

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Bootstrapping by Piggybacking: Evenica CEO Sadek Ali (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: You joined that other company, but you kept the software services that was going in parallel. Sadek Ali: Correct. Then we ended the business when I went to New York. From there, I came home because I felt that I had enough experience to do my own raise with my own ideas. In

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Y Soft to $30M from the Czech Republic

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is a wonderful story of a Czech entrepreneur, Vaclav Muchna, Co-owner and CEO of Y Soft. At age 22, at a time when his country was far from ready to support entrepreneurs, he struggled through immense odds and has built a global business. Read on

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