577th Roundtable Recording with Chandrashekar Kupperi, Peaceful Progress Fund

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577th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Chandrashekar Kupperi, Peaceful Progress Fund

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.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping Linguamatics to Over $10M from the UK

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Cambridge, England is a great place for high-end technical talent. This story from 2017 traces the journey of a group of such talented people with core expertise in Natural Language Processing, including Co-founder Roger Hale, and how they turned their expertise into a robust, profitable business.

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Bootstrapping Using Facebook Ads to $5M: Dow Janes Co-founders Laurie-Anne King and Britt Baker (Part 1)

Facebook gets a tremendous bad rap for its many nefarious side effects. Numerous small businesses, however, have been possible because of Facebook’s incredible Ad engine. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What is the story leading up to this? We’ll

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20-Year Journey of a Fat Startup with Major Pivots: Scott Sellers, CEO of Azul (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s switch to the other side of the business. What go-to-market strategy did you go with that? Scott Sellers: The product is called Platform Prime. It is based on open source technology. It’s the same OpenJDK that the open-source Zulu comes from. To that, we add proprietary elements that make it better. It

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Steve Eskenazi, Angel Investor (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I was talking to Eric Benhamou two days ago. He was like, “I’m looking for a good application or use case for NFT.” What about exits? What have you seen through your investments? Steve Eskenazi: I think there are a couple of tried and true methodologies. I think the best company gets bought

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Catching Up On Readings: State of Web3

This feature from The Wall Street Journal by Christopher Mims decodes the status of Web3 following the crash of the world’s crypto prices. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

20-Year Journey of a Fat Startup with Major Pivots: Scott Sellers, CEO of Azul (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: The open-source was a commercial open source business model where the free product was lead generating for a subscription-based offering? Scott Sellers: Right. We still have free downloads of the open-source software. We encourage people to use it in an unrestricted manner. The business monetization model is selling commercial support services, which include

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