Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Pinpoint for me exactly what problem you are solving now. Ricardo Josua: We are solving agility with robustness for core banking capabilities. What banks have done for the past 10 years is take an agile team or a group of young developers and build experiences that are very cool but have to integrate

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From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Is it all word-of-mouth that developers found out about you? Michael Morris: Word-of-mouth. I referenced that Social Network movie because it mostly started in Computer Science departments at universities across the globe. Once we got a foothold in the US, it started going globally. Once we went global, it expanded. There was a

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New 1Mby1M – Udemy Course and Discount Coupon: From Developer to Entrepreneur Case Studies

1Mby1M has had particular success in helping techie entrepreneurs learn the nuances of technology entrepreneurship and making the transition to successful entrepreneurs by learning the business side of startups. In this new course, From Developer to Entrepreneur Case Studies, we offer case studies of entrepreneurs who have made this transition successfully, in their own words.

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Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Now we’re in 2012? Ricardo Josua: 2014. I started another venture in finance providing structuring for asset-backed security. It was lateral to the business we were doing at that point. I also began working with EdTech on modernization for schools. Sramana Mitra: In what capacity were you involved in these ventures?

From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What year does this bring us up to? Michael Morris: This would be the end of 2001. A group of us stayed on for a little bit, then we left. We went and started a company called Topcoder. The whole idea was to build a community for software developers to compete and earn

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Best of Bootstrapping: Queue-It Bootstrapped from Denmark to the US

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  In 2019, Queue-It Co-founder Camilla Ley Valentin shared this wonderful story of capital-efficient entrepreneurship, and scaling a company born in Denmark to having 40% of its business in the US. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where

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Building a Global Hardcore Financial Technology Company from Brazil: Ricardo Josua, CEO of Pismo (Part 1)

We don’t hear of hardcore B-to-B technology ventures coming out of Latin America very often.Ricardo is building one that caters to banks and financial institutions, has raised over $100M in financing, has over $25M in revenue, and has major Latin American banks as customers. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.

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From Developer to Serial Entrepreneur: Michael Morris, CEO of Torc (Part 1)

Michael has not only transitioned successfully from a developer to an entrepreneur, but he has also built communities of developers and 2-sided marketplaces around them over and again. Torc is his third run at this overall mission of enabling and empowering developers to have great careers. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of

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