Roundtable Recap: March 24 – Spotlight on Bootstrapping to Exit

During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Abinash Saikia, Co-founder of EnCloudEn and former 1Mby1M Premium member. Abinash has successfully bootstrapped his venture to an exit and discussed the process in great depth. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: 568th 1Mby1M Roundtable with Abinash Saikia, EnCloudEn

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Solo Entrepreneur Bootstraps First, Raises Money Later in Utah: GuideCX CEO Peter Ord (Part 1)

We’re big fans of solo entrepreneurs. Peter validated his business with real paying customers before he raised money; always the best strategy. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

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

Christopher Mirabile is Senior Managing Director at Launchpad Venture Group. We have an awesome conversation about a non-Unicorn chasing investment philosophy. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about your background as well as Launchpad. Christopher Mirabile: I was actually an English major. I started my career in strategy consulting. I ended up getting a law

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568th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 568th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, March 24, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

568th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 568th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 24, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/4 p.m. CET/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Building a Medication Management Startup Through Multiple Pivots: Medisafe Co-Founder and CTO Rotem Shor (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Funding was happening in Israel? Rotem Shor: Seed and Series A was in Israel. In Round B, non-Israeli venture funds joined. Sramana Mitra: By Series B, you had the third client? Rotem Shor: Yes, but we had more of a thesis. We still got traction from users. Sramana Mitra: How much money are

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrap to Exit and THEN do a VC-Funded Venture

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  A very effective way to dance the entrepreneurial Waltz is to do a bootstrapped company first, sell it, and then do another venture with a more ambitious agenda. Jeremy Swift’s journey as Co-founder and CEO of Cordial is a great case study in this method. Sramana Mitra:

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With BV Jagadeesh, Managing Partner at KAAJ Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Excellent. Is there one that you have done from India that you would like to discuss a little bit? BV Jagadeesh: Let me take Futura. They used to be employees of MindTree. They approached me through some common connection. They hadn’t started yet at that time. They were thinking of getting into this

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