Digital Nomad Building a $5M+ E-Commerce Business: IntelligentLabs CEO Rus Hughes (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Who was this business partner? How did you become business partners? Rus Hughes: I knew him when I was living in Brighton. He discovered a business model of how to market products online. He wasn’t sure what product to market. Given that we were both into health and fitness, we thought we’d start

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Best of Bootstrapping: Solopreneur Bootstrapped a Niche E-commerce Venture to $12M

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  It is very difficult to find gaps in e-commerce these days. Sawyer Twain Founder Chris Turner found one and executed the hell out of it. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and

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Digital Nomad Building a $5M+ E-Commerce Business: IntelligentLabs CEO Rus Hughes (Part 1)

Rus lives the life of a digital nomad. He started life as a techie, and with a very small team and a cofounder, has built a $5M+ niche e-commerce business selling supplements. Excellent story full of lessons and nuances. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Tell me about where you

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There are over six million students enrolled in Machine Learning courses on Udemy. The most daring will try to start their own businesses. For these learners, we continue to introduce Udemy courses based on the 1Mby1M methodology that will assist budding entrepreneurs in creating a pragmatic strategy. I believe, strongly, that entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial capitalism

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $3M a Month

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Prequel Co-founder CEO Timur Khabirov 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? Timur Khabirov: I was born in

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Thursday, April 13 – 604th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 604th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 13, 2023, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 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 FinTech Startup by Piggybacking with Services

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Quavo Co-founder David Chmielewski transitioned from a developer to an entrepreneur by leveraging his solid domain knowledge in a particular area of FinTech: dispute resolution for credit card transactions. He and his co-founders effectively used bootstrapping using services and piggybacked on the Pega Systems platform. Read

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