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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Product Using Services First

Posted on Thursday, May 18th 2023

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Here is yet another case study of a services company successfully bootstrapping a product, then raising Venture Capital. Here is my conversation with Bill Moschella, Co-founder of Evariant, from 2015. Healthgrades acquired Evariant in 2020. Sramana Mitra: Let’s begin at the beginning of your personal story.

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607th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting NOW: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, May 18th 2023

Today’s 607th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting NOW, on Thursday, May 18, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. MEETING NUMBER: 2559 287 4514 PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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607th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Posted on Thursday, May 18th 2023

Today’s 607th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, May 18, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. MEETING NUMBER: 2559 287 4514 PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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Building an AI-Powered Pharmaceutical Services Business: VIDA CEO Susan Wood (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, May 18th 2023

Susan Wood: There are people out there who are walking around with a prevalence of lung disease that they’re not even aware of. You can have low-level or medium-level lung disease and not feel that much difference in your day-to-day life. When you have a pandemic and you have this acute impact on your respiratory

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Building an AI-Powered Pharmaceutical Services Business: VIDA CEO Susan Wood (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, May 17th 2023

Sramana Mitra: Did you succeed in raising venture capital? Susan Wood: Within the state, yes. The last round was a couple of years ago. That was with First Analysis out of Chicago. I’ve got some Silicon Valley money, but mostly from Midwest. Sramana Mitra: It’s a common storyline where you get the early-stage funding from

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New Generative AI Startup Course and Udemy Coupons for May

Posted on Wednesday, May 17th 2023

As a part of our aim to democratize entrepreneurship education at scale globally, we have packaged our proven 1Mby1M methodology for building technology startups into short courses on Udemy. In addition to offering you up to 85% off the following Udemy courses this month, we are introducing our new Generative AI course, Generative AI Startup

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services First, then Raised Capital to Exit

Posted on Tuesday, May 16th 2023

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Chuck Bloomquist bootstrapped a security company using services all the way up to $16 million in revenue and then raised private equity capital to develop a platform product. Since we spoke in 2015, InteliSecure was acquired by Proofpoint. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning

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Building an AI-Powered Pharmaceutical Services Business: VIDA CEO Susan Wood (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, May 16th 2023

Sramana Mitra: Did you work in engineering all through this period? Susan Wood: No. When I left Hopkins, I actually worked in a business capacity. It was a very technical sale. I probably wasn’t as heavy on my programming ability as a lot of the people in the company. I started learning my MBA on

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