Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped to $10M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  In 2020, Coalition Technologies was still largely a services company, but also had a few products. Co-founder Jordan Brannon shared the company’s well-managed journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Sankaet Pathak, CEO of Synapse (Part 1)

Sankaet is building interesting infrastructure products for FinTech. Lots of insights, also, on open opportunities within the field for new entrepreneurs to latch onto. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to Synapse. Sankaet Pathak: I’m the Founder and CEO of Synapse. If you haven’t heard of Synapse, we

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Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Movius CEO Ananth Siva (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: There’s a part of your story that I resonate with – having a corporate number that doesn’t move around. Some other employee mans that number. When the customer calls that number, they’re bound to get somebody. That is very compelling. Permit me to play the devil’s advocate. I think your story is more

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Catching Up On Readings: ET Startup Awards 2022

This feature from The Economic Times covers the winners of the annual ET Startup Awards across nine categories including Startup of the Year and Bootstrap Champ. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Movius CEO Ananth Siva (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: I’ve talked to some CEOs who are in that business as well. Key employers are keen to monitor what employees are doing on their time. They want to see what are the activities on the device. You get into this thing about the employees’ devices being monitored by software that the employer is

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Bootstrapping Using Services from The Netherlands to a $300M+ Exit: Quintiq and ActiVote Founder Victor Allis (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Is this a B2C business? Victor Allis: Yes, it’s for voters. The strange thing is, there’s no revenue. There is no business model at the time. All we’re trying to do is to get people to use it to vote. I always believe that if you do something that adds value, there’s always

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594th 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Kyle Asman, Backswing Ventures

Kyle Asman is Managing Director at Backswing Ventures, a firm that has a non-Unicorn investment thesis.

Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing: Movius CEO Ananth Siva (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Just to play devil’s advocate, there are plenty of businesses that are not on T Mobile. If you wanted to get to those businesses, working with those carriers would make perfect sense. Ananth Siva: That’s how we approached this in the first place that might be the case. If you look at the

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