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Today’s 633rd FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, February 15, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Virtual Business to Scale

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  When we spoke in 2020, Lilia Stoyanov, CEO of Transformify, had built a virtual company with zero employees, all freelancers and scaled it without outside financing. Read on for more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to you. Where are you from? Where

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Best of Bootstrapping: What is the Best Bootstrapping Tactic for B2B Startups?

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  What is the best bootstrapping tactic for B2B startups? Solve an acute customer pain. Get paid an advance to do so. Leeyo Software Founder Jagan Reddy followed this strategy to bootstrap to $20 million. He built a niche software that solved a very specific problem

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Best of Bootstrapping: Founder CEO Bootstrapped to $35+ Million

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  During these unusual times, many who once dreamed of funding are forced to bootstrap. Well, bootstrapping is good during good times, and necessary during bad times. Here, BannerBuzz Founder and CEO Nishant Shah shares how he bootstrapped to over $35 million in 2019 revenue. Sramana

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Catching Up On Readings: AI PC and Smartphone Market

This report from Gartner forecasts that worldwide shipments of AI PCs and GenAI smartphones will grow 11% to 295 million units by the end of 2024. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to $20M+ and an Exit

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’re big fans of bootstrapping to exit case studies. Imagine Easy Solutions’ Co-founder and Co-CEO Neal Taparia shares his wonderful journey. They scaled the business to over $20 million in revenue without investment and sold to Chegg in 2016. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the

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Best of Bootstrapping: From Laid-Off Engineer to Startup Co-founder and Exit

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Aspera Co-founder Michelle Munson started the company she began after being laid off. Aspera was her realization that she could not only control her own career path, but also create jobs for other people in a culture she established. I hope this conversation from 2009

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Building a Capital Efficient Second Venture: LiftLab CEO John Wallace (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: It’s interesting. Now, where to from here? You said that 2023 was great. You’ve been doubling every year. It’s almost venture scale growth without raising huge amounts of money, which is all fabulous. What are you trying to accomplish and how do you want to play this? John Wallace: Next, it must be,

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