Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Marketplace to Over $10M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Home Alliance CEO Sardor Umrdinov had bootstrapped a marketplace of home appliance technicians to over $10 million in revenue by the time when we spoke in 2019. Great story. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

Read Full Article »

Featured Videos

583rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Pawel Maj, Warsaw Equity Group

Pawel Maj, Investment Director, Warsaw Equity Group, discusses post-seed and pre-series A funding in Eastern and Central Europe in the context of his firm’s investment thesis.

July 28 – 584th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 584th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, July 28, 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

Read Full Article »

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: NorthOne CEO Eytan Bensoussan (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: First, what is your background? Eytan Bensoussan: What I did prior to this was helpful, but they were adjacent. I studied Mathematics and Biochemistry. In the iterations of my career, I did a law and MBA program. Not connected to this thing, but they were iterative pieces. Then I spent six years at

Read Full Article »

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Bill Bruno, CEO of D4t4 (Part 1)

With more people on the Internet and more connected devices, the touchpoint for Cyber Fraud is increasing exponentially. We deep dive into problems, solutions, open problems, and entrepreneurial opportunities. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company. Bill Bruno: I’m the CEO of D4t4 Solutions. It’s a

Read Full Article »

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: NorthOne CEO Eytan Bensoussan (Part 1)

FinTech companies are difficult to get off the ground. This case study is a deep dive into how Eytan managed to get to the seed funding round and marshal capital to go to the next level. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as NorthOne.

Student Developers Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, Then Growing to a Million Users: Ben Spring, CEO of TryHackMe (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk to me about the competition? There is a whole bunch of players in the EdTech space who also cater to the same customers that you are interested in. Pluralsight is a very good example. Who else do you consider as a competitor? Ben Spring: There are a couple of labs

Read Full Article »

Catching Up On Readings: Distributed AI at VB Transform 22

Based on a discussion at VB Transform 2022 held in San Francisco last week, this feature from Venture Beat looks at how distributed AI is key to pushing the AI innovation lab. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.