Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping JobNimbus First, Raising Money Later

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Ben Hodson, Co-founder and CEO of JobNimbus, 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

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4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How long into your independent journey did the acquisition happen? Kashyap Deorah: Three years. Sramana Mitra: Then you stayed at Future group for two more years? Kashyap Deorah: Correct. Sramana Mitra: In those later two years, did the business change? India was coming online at a very fast pace.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Vantage Circle from Guwahati, India

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. I am always thrilled to do stories of pioneering entrepreneurs building technology startups in remote locations. Anjan Pathak, Co-founder and CTO of Vantage Circle, brings us into the nascent scene in Guwahati, in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back

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Thursday, March 3 – 566th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 566th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, March 3, 2022, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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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Dealing with Major Market Shifts: Aphrodite’s CEO Jonathan Foltz (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: For the digital agency, how were you acquiring your clients? Jonathan Foltz: No one believes me when I say this. It started off with friends and people I knew. I never marketed, ever. Sramana Mitra: What year was this? Jonathan Foltz: We started in 2009. 2010 and further was when things started to

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4X Serial Entrepreneur from India: Kashyap Deorah, CEO of HyperTrack (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Talk a little bit about that project – the one where we met. Kashyap Deorah: I was always inspired by the power of the internet to democratize disaggregated markets. One of the problems I saw was that not all the market participants get the same opportunity. Internet was not mainstream at that time.

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