Jan. 19 – 598th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 598th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, January 19, 2023, 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 a Healthcare IT Company to $100M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke in 2015, Edifecs Founder Sunny Singh had built a very interesting healthcare IT company, overcoming serious challenges. Inspiring story of a bootstrapped success. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised,

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping to Exit with David Lambert, Right Side Capital

If you have been bootstrapping and think you are ready for investors, you need to learn how investors think. First, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Then, start looking for entrepreneur – investor fit. Here is my conversation from 2019 with David Lambert of Right Side Capital Management. David Lambert

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping All the Way

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  President CEO Adam Stern used some equipment financing, and was considering some debt financing, to scale Infinitely Virtual when we spoke in 2015. He had not used any venture capital or private equity, but had built a substantial company. Read on to learn how. Sramana Mitra:

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Vacasa in Crowded Vacation Rental Space to $100M

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. When we spoke in 2015, Cliff Johnson and his co-founder had bootstrapped Vacasa to scale in the crowded vacation rental space. Vacasa was acquired by Oasis Collections in 2018 and became a publicly traded company in 2021. Sramana Mitra: Let’s

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Kyle Asman, Managing Director at Backswing Ventures (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: Talk about the case studies of the two companies that you sold. Kyle Asman: One of them was in real estate technology. It was a highly-profitable company with high revenue. They were pretty quick to exit. They needed some investment to grow some things and get to the next level. The other one

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $45M from Chicago

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  RKON Technologies CEO Jeff Mullarkey had built a Managed Service Provider (MSP) business that I thought he could take to $500 million or a billion dollars in revenue when we spoke in 2015. Read on to learn why. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin at the very beginning

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Kyle Asman, Managing Director at Backswing Ventures (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: That’s after they have come to you and decided that they want to work with you. These are two different, slightly off-center entities – a company that is already doing a million dollars in revenue that is profitability focused and is interested in a relatively early exit. Those are the characteristics of the

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