Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Web Hosting Company to $60M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke in 2014, Christopher Aker, Founder of Linode, had already had many opportunities to raise money along the way while bootstrapping to a $60 million revenue level. Find out why he chose not to. Linode was acquired by Akamai Technologies in 2022. Sramana: Chris,

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602nd 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: March 16 – Two Startups Already in Revenue

During this week’s roundtable, we worked with two entrepreneurs. Albiva First up, we had Ivana Iesini from London, UK, pitch Albiva – a natural skin care line that is already in revenue. ChargebackZero Next, we had Vasanth Matamudra from San Ramon, California, with Sudhir and Raja in India, pitching ChargebackZero, a FinTech venture that is

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Bootstrapping to $3M a month: Prequel CEO Timur Khabirov (Part 1)

Timur has bootstrapped a digital app to $3M a month. Read on to learn how. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where were you born and raised? What kind of background?

Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Entrepreneur Bootstrapped Using Services Repeatedly

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  See how a serial entrepreneur used the ‘Bootstrapping Using Services’ methodology repeatedly to get companies off the ground. Krishna Kumar, Founder of App Orchid, I’ve learned, is sadly now deceased. From this conversation from 2014, you can imagine that he has left behind quite a legacy.

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Mastering Bootstrapping: 6 Essential Courses for Launching a Capital-Efficient Startup

Most businesses can be launched in a capital efficient manner. Most businesses can go a long way in a bootstrapped mode. As long as you’re not taking on capital guzzlers like drug discovery or semiconductor chips, you have many options to explore. At 1Mby1M, we don’t insist on fund raising. A bootstrapped, capital-efficient, million-dollar business

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Building a Robotics Company from India: Ritukar Vijay CEO of Ottonomy (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Who’s paying? Ritukar Vijay: The concessionaire, airport, and end customer. End customers are paying for convenience. They don’t have to pay any tips. Sramana Mitra: Are you making your revenue from the airport payments or concessionaires? Ritukar Vijay: All three of them. We are the single point of contact with the consumer where

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How to Use Your AI, ML and Big Data Knowledge to Bootstrap a Startup

Let’s talk about the field of medicine. If you think about what a doctor needs to do to diagnose an illness, she needs to consider all the symptoms, take into account all the test results, consider all the treatment options, factor in all the side-effects of various medications and their interplay with other medications the

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