Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped First, Raised $120M Later

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  This discussion from 2020 with Madwire Co-CEO JB Kellogg includes all sorts of interesting nuances, including DIFM vs. DIY. Read on. 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 of

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Thursday, October 6 – 592nd 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 592nd FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 6, 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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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Stellar Cyber CoFounder and CTO Aimei Wei (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What is your strategy vis-a-vis the players like Qualys and Palo Alto Networks? Are there opportunities for partnerships? If they’re not your direct competitors, do they have anything in their portfolio that you compete with? That would then open you up to large enterprises. Aimei Wei: We have integrations with Palo Alto’s firewall.

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Building a High-Growth Startup From Brazil: Revelo CEO Lachlan de Crespigny (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What happens next? This was still in 2015? Lachlan de Crespigny: Right at the end of 2014. We ran a three-month test and if it worked, we’d decide whether we want to start this business. We started and the second one worked. The biggest next step was, we raised a seed round in

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Stellar Cyber CoFounder and CTO Aimei Wei (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Is it fair to say that your solution goes to market through the MSSPs? Aimei Wei: That’s one type and accounts for 50% of our business. On the other hand, we do have enterprises that operate on their own, for example, higher education, government, or financial institutions. Sramana Mitra: I’m going to discuss

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Building a High-Growth Startup From Brazil: Revelo CEO Lachlan de Crespigny (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: What was your hypothesis on how you were going to generate cash flow? Lachlan de Crespigny: We were shocked to discover this industry where offline recruiters would do tasks that we knew could be automated quickly and they charged very large amounts of money for it. We need to sell something high-ticket, because

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Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Stellar Cyber CoFounder and CTO Aimei Wei (Part 1)

Aimei talks about the Cyber Analytics space and how her company analyzes the entire attack surface. It’s a hard problem, and she explains the nuances of technical and go-to-market strategy. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the context of Stellar Cyber. Tell us a bit about yourself as well as Stellar Cyber.

October Udemy Coupons for Tech Startup Courses Based on 1Mby1M Methodology

Over the years, we have developed a proven methodology for building tech startups. We have started packaging the 1Mby1M methodology into short courses on Udemy. This is an extension of our strategy to democratize entrepreneurship education at scale, globally. Here are the $12.99 coupon codes for all of our courses on Udemy. These coupons expire

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