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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $10M+ First, Raised Money Later

Posted on Friday, Sep 30th 2022

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Koncert (formerly ConnectLeader) CEO Senraj Soundar had bootstrapped his company to over $10 million in revenue when we spoke in 2017. We love stories like this that reinforce our philosophy: “Do not go to VCs as beggars, go as kings!” Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Sep 30th 2022

Sramana Mitra: Where are you looking right now? What verticals are underserved where you think such large opportunities exist? What kinds of verticals are you looking at? Yanev Suissa: We have a bet in the AgTech space. We’ve done a few in the health insurance space and the HealthTech space. We are increasingly looking at

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Twin Brothers Building a FinTech Venture: Stephen Roche and Gabino Roche, CoFounders of Saphyre (Part 5)

Posted on Friday, Sep 30th 2022

Sramana Mitra: Tell me about the customer progress from 2017 to 2022. You had five years’ worth of customer development that has happened. Tell me about who those customers were, what were the average deal sizes, and at what pace were they coming in. Stephen Roche: The revenue didn’t start coming in till 2020. In

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Yanev Suissa, Managing Partner and Founder at SineWave Ventures (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 29th 2022

Yanev Suissa: We are also very comfortable going deep on the vertical side of things rather than just horizontally. You could build multi-billion dollar businesses in verticals that aren’t as familiar to the Valley sometimes like agriculture. Climate tech is one of those verticals that has emerged. Insurance is one a lot of people talk

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592nd Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Sep 29th 2022

Today’s 592nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable For Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, September 29, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped First, Then Scaled with VC Funds

Posted on Thursday, Sep 29th 2022

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke in 2019, Faction Founder Luke Norris had executed a tremendously effective Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later strategy from Colorado. 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

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592nd Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, Sep 29th 2022

Today’s 592nd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 29, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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Twin Brothers Building a FinTech Venture: Stephen Roche and Gabino Roche, CoFounders of Saphyre (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Sep 29th 2022

Gabino Roche: We also got ideas. There was some nomenclature we would encounter along the way. We had to come up with intelligent ways without the client knowing what we were trying to do. They had to see words the way they understood them. We had to create a smart way of mapping that data.

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