Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped Using Services, then Raised $10M and Scaled to $16M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This is a textbook case study of founders with deep domain knowledge in starting with services and then productizing, eventually raising institutional capital. EZOPS Co-Founders Sarva Srinivasan and Dutt Chintalapati tell us all about their journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your

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Israeli Founders Building a FinTech Venture: Omri Dor, Co-Founder and COO of Obligo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: When you went out for seed funding, what did you have? Did you have an MVP? Omri Dor: We started working on it. In the beginning, it was me and Roey. For his other businesses, he had this building with offices. We were sitting there figuring out some stuff. We started thinking about

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From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: All these things that you talked about fit under positioning. Product positioning makes or breaks the business. You have to hit the right pain points, the right go-to-market strategy,and the right segmentation. The next question I want to ask you is, you were tinkering with certain ideas in 2009, but the real idea

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Israeli Founders Building a FinTech Venture: Omri Dor, Co-Founder and COO of Obligo (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was the genesis? What was the idea? Omri Dor: I should mention that ever since I was 20, I would always keep a record of all my ideas. I would try to classify them. I would do due diligence on my own ideas. I did this a lot. Every once in a

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Best of Bootstrapping: Entrepreneur Couple Bootstraps an E-commerce Business Using a Paycheck and Crowdfunding

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Nomad Lane Co-Founders Kish Vasnani and Vanessa Jeswani bootstrapped to multi-million dollars in revenue selling a private label product before quitting their jobs. In this story, you also get to see the nuances of running successful (and not so successful) crowdfunding campaigns. Very interesting journey and

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Thursday, March 10 – 567th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 567th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, March 10, 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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From Developer to Successful Machine Learning Entrepreneur: David Moss, Co-Founder, President and CTO of People Power Company (Part 2)

David Moss: We realized that one of the big barriers to entry is that people have to buy some thing before they realize the value. We got to thinking about how do we get past this barrier to create more of a freemium model of the IoT. In 2013, I came up with the concept

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Zimit Using Services to $10M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Zimit CEO James Cramer shares yet another fantastic textbook case study. Zimit was acquired by Workday in September 2021. Sramana

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