Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Algo.ai with Services from Michigan

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. I am always thrilled to see great entrepreneurship in various parts of the world that are off-center. Well, Algo Founder and CEO Amjad Hussain’s journey is a great one from Detroit. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of

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Leveraging Channels and Slovenia to build Successful Businesses: Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You identified some Citrix monitoring IP. Where was this IP located? Simon Taylor: It was in Slovenia. It became the technology capital of central Europe at that time. They have become incredibly adept at artificial intelligence. With what we’re seeing in Ukraine today and the attacks by Russia, it’s extremely concerning what’s going

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Under30Experiences to $5M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Under30Experiences Co-founder Matt Wilson has built a fantastic business using content marketing to sell travel experiences to a millennial demographic. Very cool! Here is our conversation from 2019. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where did you grow

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Julie Lein, Managing Partner at Urban Innovation Fund (Part 1)

Julie Lein, Managing Partner at Urban Innovation Fund, discusses pre-seed and seed funding in companies focused on the betterment of cities. Sramana Mitra: Let’s get you and Urban Innovation Fund introduced to our audience. Julie Lein: I’m the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund. We are a venture capital firm that invests

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Leveraging Channels and Slovenia to build Successful Businesses: Simon Taylor, CEO of HYCU (Part 1)

Simon offers excellent insights into creating an unfair advantage with unique engineering team leverage in off-center locations. He also discusses creative channel strategy techniques. 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?

Catching Up On Readings: LatAm Startup Ecosystem 2022

This feature from Crunchbase News analyzes what the Latin American startup ecosystem will look like by the end of 2022. There were 18 unicorns in LatAm in 2021, and the stabilized confidence in the region will drive new opportunities, and more diverse players are expected to enter the space. For this week’s posts, click on

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573rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Steve Eskenazi, Angel Investor

Steve Eskenazi is an Angel Investor, and we had a number of interesting trend conversations.

Applying AI to Lead Generation: Rev CEO Jonathan Spier (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: We have tried to move the software industry into this DIY model. The whole SaaS industry is a DIY model. Ho and I were talking about the opportunity to do a DIFM (Do It For Me). Years ago, I coined another phrase to describe those – SaaS-enabled BPO. There is technology, but the

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