Abinash Saikia: I had learned a lot of stuff. There are three things you could do. LinkedIn is one. Second is, if you have a connection, that is even better. What also works are cold emails. It has worked in my case. If you have the right message to the right person in the company,
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Sramana Mitra: How did you get millions of bookings prior to having a product? Jonathan Spier: A big portion of that was because of spending time upfront to identify a vision that the right people care about and then connecting with those right people. Sramana Mitra: Where did that vision come from? Jonathan Spier: My
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. While it doesn’t happen that often, Bootstrapped Unicorns do exist. My 2014 Entrepreneur Journeys book, Billion Dollar Unicorns, has a whole section on this topic. You can read an excerpt on my blog titled Bootstrapped Unicorns. In this piece, I discuss three companies, Zoho, eClinicalWorks, and Veeam,
Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about the acquisition itself. At what point did you start speaking with the acquirer? I introduced you to a whole bunch of people as well. We were working on getting you in front of people. Discuss when did you start this process and how you put one foot after the other.
Sramana Mitra: How far did you take that company? Jonathan Spier: We grew it for about seven and a half years. We had raised a little over $20 million, and we had an offer to sell into the nine figures from a major enterprise software company. One of the board members didn’t want to sell.
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If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. You must have read something or the other about Blitzscaling, the hypergrowth phenomenon that Reid Hoffman has been championing: What entrepreneur or founder doesn’t aspire to build the next Amazon, Facebook, or Airbnb? Yet those who actually manage to do so are exceedingly rare. So what