Sramana Mitra: How did you find these customers? David Liu: They came to us. They found our website. Sramana Mitra: Google search? David Liu: Yes. SIP is the industry standard for VoIP and PBX basically means phone system. I remember if you type SIP PBX, we would come up on the first page.
If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. CEO Sal Akbani had bootstrapped Gateway Classic Cars to over $10 million in revenue when we spoke in 2017. This is a great story of how a two-sided marketplace was masterfully seeded and scaled in a niche market. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning
Chandrashekar Kupperi is General Partner at Peaceful Progress Fund, an angel fund in India. We have some very interesting discussions on consumer startups in India, especially the ones targeting lower economic strata consumers. Sramana Mitra: Tell us a bit about your background as well as what you’re doing with Peaceful Progress Fund.
David started Deltapath as a college student. Another case in point is that solo entrepreneurs CAN build sustainable, profitable businesses. 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? David Liu: I was born in San Jose, California.
This report by Paul Biscoff on CompariTech analyzes the impact of ransomware attacks on schools and colleges, which cost the sector $3.56 billion in2021. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
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During this week’s roundtable, we had as our guest Anup Jain, Managing Partner at Orios Venture Partners, discussing the Indian startup ecosystem and its trends and nuances. You can listen to the recording of this roundtable here: