1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sergey Jakimov, Co-Founder and Partner at LongeVC (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I want to double-click down on a bunch of areas that are broadly relevant to digital health. What you said about applying AI to drug discovery is of interest. Any kind of quantified health measures is also of interest. The intersection of computer science and biology is where our audience would find the

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator Investor Forum: With Sergey Jakimov, Co-Founder and Partner at LongeVC (Part 1)

Sergey Jakimov is Co-founder and Partner at LongeVC, a firm focused on the Longevity space. We discuss trends and opportunities in this sector full of whitespaces waiting for the entrepreneur’s magic touch. Sramana Mitra: Give us a little bit of an introduction about your background as well as about LongeVC.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using a Paycheck to Techstars and Acquisition

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  In previous stories, we showed you how entrepreneurs bootstrapped with a paycheck and then got into Y Combinator with a validated business. With Blueprint Registry, we show you the same strategy in this conversation from 2017 as executed by Co-founder Nevin Shetty to get into Techstars.

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: How do you compare with companies like Replicon? Peter Coppinger: I don’t know Replicon. I have to check them out. Sramana Mitra: I haven’t talked to them in a long time, but their pitch is similar to yours. I haven’t tracked them.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $180M in Online Real Estate

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke in 2015, Co-founder Jeff Frieden had bootstrapped Auction.com to about $180 million in revenue and profitability. Thereafter, he raised private equity financing and growth capital and ran a private company that was more than qualified to be a public Unicorn. The company had

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: What marketing channels were producing for you? Peter Coppinger: The referral was a nice slow burner that cost us nothing. We did affiliates. We did Google ads. It works,but there’s a point of saturation. It probably worked better years ago. Sramana Mitra: It’s expensive now. Peter Coppinger: The only one making money is

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Bootstrapping Using Services to $35M from Ireland, Then Raising $70M: Teamwork CEO Peter Coppinger (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Was there a section of the website where you had a lot of descriptions and keywords that Google organic was picking up. Peter Coppinger: Nothing intentional. Today, Google has changed it so that the people with the deepest pockets win. You could be listed on page two or three of Google and still

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