617th Roundtable for Entrepreneurs Starting in 30 Minutes: Live Tweeting by @1Mby1M

Today’s 617th FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, September 7, at 8 a.m. PDT/11 a.m. EDT/5 p.m. CEST/8:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to $10M and an Exit

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Among the biases of the Venture Capital industry that need to be categorically ignored, Bootstrapping Using Services happens to be on the top of the list. Zimit Founder and co-CEO James Cramer shares yet another fantastic textbook case study. Zimit was acquired by Workday in September

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped for 30 Years

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Dean Guida, CEO and Founder at Infragistics, has a real passion for the elegance, simplicity, and beauty of software development. He has built a company celebrating these values. Sramana Mitra: We will start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you

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Best of Bootstrapping: Serial Entrepreneur Bootstraps First, Raises Funds Later

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Ben Hodson, Co-founder and CEO of JobNimbus, is a serial entrepreneur with a long experience in bootstrapping and fundraising. Read on to see how he has navigated his journey. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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September 7 – 617th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 617th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 7, 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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616th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

In case you missed it, you can listen to the recording of this roundtable here:

Bootstrapping an AI Chatbot Startup with a Paycheck: Ankush Sabharwal, CEO of CoRover (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Your friend gave you some money and gave the money back. What other financing has happened? Ankush Sabharwal: My two friends who joined as co-founders gave me money. We took angel funding just before IRCTC went live. Then we got funds from Canbank VC. Now we will be announcing a fund raise. Sramana

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Catching Up On Readings: Startups Failure Post-Mortem

This feature from CBInsights provides a compilation of the analysis of 463 startup failures since 2014. Funding, the lifeblood of startups, has dropped 34% from 2021 to 2022. Halfway through 2023, funding only sat at $130.2B, less than a third of 2022’s year-end total. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.