Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later and Build a World-Class AI Startup from India: Raghu Ravinutala, CEO of Yellow.ai (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: You got to a million ARR on the strength of those first 10 customers? Raghu Ravinutala: No, once we got the 10, we got more. When we were at $1 million, we had 35 to 40 customers. Sramana Mitra: You didn’t have to raise money until that point? Raghu Ravinutala: Correct. Sramana Mitra:

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Thursday, July 7 – 582nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 582nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 7, 2022, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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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Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later and Build a World-Class AI Startup from India: Raghu Ravinutala, CEO of Yellow.ai (Part 1)

Raghu has built an incredible AI startup from India with a global base of enterprise clients. Fabulous story! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as the genesis of Yellow.ai. Raghu Ravinutala: I’m the Co-Founder and CEO of Yellow.ai. Yellow.ai enables enterprises to drive automation on their customer experiences and

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Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup with a Paycheck to Exit: Jay Perkins, Co-founder of Kettlebell Kings (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: You sold from bootstrapped directly to exit right? Jay Perkins: Right. When you’re building a business, it’s not easy. You can live and die with the day-to-day. Something good happens and you’re on cloud nine. Then a customer gets a damaged product. Sramana Mitra: What kind of exit price did you get for

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Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup with a Paycheck to Exit: Jay Perkins, Co-founder of Kettlebell Kings (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: How long from the point you started did it take you to get to $1 million? How long did it take you to get to $5 million? Jay Perkins: A million would have been in our fourth year. We did $60,000 in our first year, $270,000 in our second year, and $750,000 the

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Catching Up On Readings: VR Headset Market 2022

This report from IDC analyzes the VR headset market, which is dominated by Meta with 90% followed by Pico, DPVR, HTC, and iQIYI. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping an E-Commerce Startup with a Paycheck to Exit: Jay Perkins, Co-founder of Kettlebell Kings (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: At what point did you plug Kabbage into your financing process? Jay Perkins: That was probably about four or five years in. Sramana Mitra: So for four years, you operated as a fully-bootstrapped company? Jay Perkins: Yes, it was tough. We’d be out of the most popular SKUs for four to five months

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July 7 – 582nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 582nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 7, 2022, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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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