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Ukrainian Entrepreneur Bootstrapped with a Paycheck to $7M ARR: Nikita Sherbina, CEO of AIScreen (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: Was it just you and your Ukrainian developers at this point? Nikita Sherbina: No. One was a developer and the other was a designer. I’m the Product Sanager, Sales. One guy was building it. Another guy was designing it. I was trying to build a sales team and thinking about different features. If

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Best of Bootstrapping: Co-founders Bootstrapped First, Raised $22M Later

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Here is yet another story of a high-growth SaaS company that was bootstrapped first. When I spoke with RJMetrics Co-founder Robert Moore in 2016, the company had gone on to raise $22 million. RJMetrics was acquired by Magento and is now part of Adobe Commerce Cloud.

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Ukrainian Entrepreneur Bootstrapped with a Paycheck to $7M ARR: Nikita Sherbina, CEO of AIScreen (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How did you get your first customer? It sounds like you had a personal experience as well as observed experience of identifying the problem. How did you get to the first customer? Nikita Sherbina: We outsource sales people and back in my country, we educate them. We educate those sales reps how to

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Ukrainian Entrepreneur Bootstrapped with a Paycheck to $7M ARR: Nikita Sherbina, CEO of AIScreen (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra:: Talk about the two projects. Nikita Sherbina: I was working in an AI-enabled tool company. It was for marketing and sales people. It helped communication between departments. For example, you can create multiple campaigns in sales. Marketing people can see all these statistics. We’ve 80 customers which generated $80 million of revenue. It

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Ukrainian Entrepreneur Bootstrapped with a Paycheck to $7M ARR: Nikita Sherbina, CEO of AIScreen (Part 1)

This is a classic bootstrapping story with a very small team to serious revenue. 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? Nikita Sherbina: I was born and raised in Ukraine. I moved to the United States about

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an AI Software Company to Exit

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Artificial Intelligence startups are very hot these days. Read how CEO Dave Copps built Brainspace from Dallas. After we spoke in 2016, Brainspace was acquired by Cyxtera Technologies in 2017. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where

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Catching Up On Readings: Clean Air Startups

This feature from Crunchbase News looks at funded startups that tackle air quality. From filters you wear in your nose to industrial carbon capture systems, startups focused on cleaner air have pulled in some big rounds over the past several years. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.