Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Diversyfund CEO Craig Cecilio (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Is there a level of financial wealth at which you are finding people? Are these people beginning to build wealth? Craig Cecilio: That’s a great question. We’re talking about this. We overlapped the statistics on the population and how many are accredited and considered sophisticated. We dove into our community and saw what

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From Developer to Entrepreneur with $20M in Bootstrapped Revenue: Julien Salinas, CEO of NLP Cloud (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: What percentage of the customers are in the $10,000 range? Julien Salinas: Among our paid customers, it’s 10%. Maybe a bit less. Sramana Mitra: How much of this is what you call major account customers? Julien Salinas: I don’t have the exact number today, but I think it’s something like 150 to 200

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November 17 – 596th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 596th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, November 17, 2022, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 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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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Codesigned Using Services

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We continue our coverage of bootstrapping using services with Codesigned Founder CEO Jake Weaver. 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 background? Jake Weaver: I’m from a very small

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: Diversyfund CEO Craig Cecilio (Part 1)

The Jobs Act has introduced the notion of democratization in investing. The issue is not as simple as it sounds. There are lots of gaps in doing this safely. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company.

From Developer to Entrepreneur with $20M in Bootstrapped Revenue: Julien Salinas, CEO of NLP Cloud (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Your customers are all developers? Julien Salinas: Less and less, but still most of them. Sramana Mitra: Is there a specific genre of developers? Are they developing a particular platform? Julien Salinas: Initially, it was mainly machine learning engineers that use Python. All the machine learning engineers are Python developers. They taught me

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Technology Product Company from India

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Some of us have worked relentlessly for decades to bring about the change in India from a largely services-driven technology industry to one that today produces credible products sold all over the world. Ameyo is one of the early examples of this shift, and Co-founder CEO

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From Developer to Entrepreneur with $20M in Bootstrapped Revenue: Julien Salinas, CEO of NLP Cloud (Part 1)

Numerous developers around the world are turning into successful entrepreneurs. Julien provides a textbook case study of a brilliant journey that is a highly repeatable blueprint to follow. 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 background?