Solo Entrepreneur to $10M+ Niche E-commerce Success: DoggieLawn Founder Natalie Youn (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: I’m trying to get to a little bit of a methodology here. Oftentimes, you do get positive bias or negative bias. It sounds like you were getting a false negative in this case where you were convinced about your own pain point, but the people you were talking to were giving you false

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services and Scaled Using Content Marketing

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  You have heard me discuss bootstrapping using services quite a lot. With Kinetic Data CEO John Sundberg’s story from 2014, we also take on another important key strategy for customer acquisition: content marketing. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with some background. Where are you from? Where were

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Solo Entrepreneur to $10M+ Niche E-commerce Success: DoggieLawn Founder Natalie Youn (Part 1)

Natalie has done a superb job of positioning a niche product and building a great business starting solo. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to an “Inc. 500” Company in Four Years

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Co-founder CEO Chris Farrell bootstrapped Tallie to a high growth Inc. 500 company in four years. After that, the product had to be re-architected, and slowed down for a couple of years, before picking up again. Read how they competed in a crowded marketplace and built

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Iterate CTO Brian Sathianathan (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: This is a very wide range of use cases. It sounds like you are going to market as a platform company. Brian Sathianathan: Correct, but we work with the appropriate service providers. We also build accelerators on top. If you look at a lot of the low-code platforms, they are purely platforms. It’s

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Best of Bootstrapping: Student Entrepreneurs Bootstrapped an E-Commerce Company to $19M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’ve seen a real trend of zero-logistics e-commerce businesses scaling phenomenally well. Read Wrist-Band Founder CEO Azim Makanojiya’s experience up to when we spoke in 2014. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised?

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From Developer to Entrepreneur: A Guide to Bootstrapping and Startup Creation

Millions of developers sit at their computers daydreaming about running their own company and making a difference in the world. They may even have fantastic ideas, but because they know nothing about business creation, they do not know how to turn ideas into a real company.  The developer-to-entrepreneur way is not an easy one, but

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Thought Leaders in Artificial Intelligence: Iterate CTO Brian Sathianathan (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: These use cases that you discussed, are all these use cases that you found yourself and are selling directly? Brian Sathianathan: Absolutely. Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on the first use case – gas station loyalty program. Who built the solution?