Thursday, March 31 – 569th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 569th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, March 31, 2022, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/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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558th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Deepak Balakrishna, Adya (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I also want to comment on what you said about go-to-market strategy. Cybersecurity is incredibly crowded. If you think about a large enterprise buyer who is usually a CISO, they don’t really have the bandwidth to look up every little startup out there. They have close relationships with the top players. When it

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstraps First, Raises Money Later in Utah: GuideCX CEO Peter Ord (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Was it mostly direct selling through LinkedIn? Peter Ord: We were 100% outbound all the way to our Series A. Our Series A was raised in October 2020. We sourced three lists that we believe represent ideal customer profiles. The first list was companies that have recently raised. The second was competitors of

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Using Services to $26M and a Fabulous Exit

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Founder CEO Vamsi Kora has bootstrapped Gathi Analytics to over $26 million in revenue in four years and exited at a fabulous multiple. Much to learn from his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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558th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Deepak Balakrishna, Adya (Part 1)

Deepak Balakrishna, Co-founder CEO of Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. We review his lessons from the trenches, steering a Bootstrapping to Exit transaction. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with at the 1Mby1M premium program with Adya, which was acquired by Qualys. Qualys, as you might know, is a public cyber security company. Adya was also

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstraps First, Raises Money Later in Utah: GuideCX CEO Peter Ord (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What was the skillset of that employee that you brought in? Peter Ord: He was a fellow sales leader. I was supporting the product. Sramana Mitra: The agency that you were working with was maintaining the product. Peter Ord: Right. We were selling and getting more customers. Todd, who was that first employee,

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Catching Up On Readings: Women-Led Unicorns

This feature from Crunchbase News analyzes the trends in unicorns founded by women. So far, 10 of the 100 unicorns in 2022 have a woman co-founder. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Christopher Mirabile, Senior Managing Director at Launchpad Venture Group (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about what you’re seeing in your deal flow as well as in your portfolio in terms of interesting trends. Early-stage deal flow is indicative of what’s happening in the pipeline of technology and interesting developments. What are you seeing? What’s interesting? Christopher Mirabile: Asset prices are stupid right now. That’s difficult

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