Bootstrapping Using Services from The Netherlands to a $300M+ Exit: Quintiq and ActiVote Founder Victor Allis (Part 1)

Victor bootstrapped Quintiq to $30M, raised funding, and then sold the company for over $300M. ActiVote is his second startup, currently self-funded. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start from the beginning. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background?

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Bootstrapping a RegTech Venture to $20M: PerformLine CEO Alex Baydin (Part 5)

Alex Baydin: They had the same compliance constraints that they had in terms of not being deceptive or misleading. There was a lot more probability that something would go wrong in a free-form phone call. We decided to build a speech analytics module and that’s where we started thinking about our product vision. However, our

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Fast Growth Company Using Services

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Gurman Hundal, Co-founder of MiQ, had bootstrapped a fast growth company using services when we spoke in 2016. Read about his impressive journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what

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October 27 – 594th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 594th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, October 27, 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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Bootstrapping a RegTech Venture to $20M: PerformLine CEO Alex Baydin (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Expand on that limited exclusivity. When you do deals like this, you’re almost developing the software for their use. How do you get out of the limited exclusivity and go from a services business to a product business where you can sell that to other people? Alex Baydin: I got lucky. This customer

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Catching Up On Readings: Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022

This feature from TechCrunch covers the highlights of the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt 2022 where among the 20 finalists that pitched on stage, five finalists were selected, and one winner was announced for the $100,000 prize and the Startup Battlefield cup. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Bootstrapping a RegTech Venture to $20M: PerformLine CEO Alex Baydin (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: During the period that you’re describing, vertical ad networks were starting to be fairly big. I remember we were covering companies like Adify and vertical search engines like Kayak. In this period that you were describing, a vertical ad network was starting to develop. Alex Baydin: A couple of signals started happening. Because

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Bootstrapping a RegTech Venture to $20M: PerformLine CEO Alex Baydin (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Once you decided that you wanted to own your own business, what were you going to do? Alex Baydin: I was working at one of the internet companies that I mentioned. I actually got fired for the first time in my life. I’ve been working since I was 15. I took it really

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