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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped Using Services to $20 Million

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 10th 2024

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  VisiQuate Founder CEO Brian Robertson is a serial bootstrapper. In fact, he always bootstraps using services. A terrific entrepreneur to learn from. This conversation is from 2020. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you

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Thursday, April 11 – 636th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 10th 2024

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 636th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 11, 2024, at 8 a.m. PDT / 11 a.m. EDT / 4 p.m. CET / 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,

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Long Bootstrapped Journey into Cutting-Edge Generative AI: Jeff Kuo, Founder of Ragic (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Apr 10th 2024

Sramana Mitra: But the no-code hypothesis was correct. Jeff Kuo: The hypothesis is pretty much correct, and up to now, it still seems quite correct. But the no-code part is hard to do technically. Not just that, it’s very hard to teach non-technical people to learn how to do this. It is a lot harder

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a SaaS Business with a Paycheck and Scaled

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 9th 2024

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  I love doing stories of entrepreneurs who are long-time readers of the 1Mby1M blog. Kovai CEO Saravana Kumar is one of them. This is a wonderful story from 2020 of how he scaled a SaaS company from Coimbatore! Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning

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Long Bootstrapped Journey into Cutting-Edge Generative AI: Jeff Kuo, Founder of Ragic (Part 2)

Posted on Tuesday, Apr 9th 2024

Sramana Mitra: What was the project? What was Ragic and your master’s thesis that you were trying to productize? Jeff Kuo: I was studying semantic web and AI-related subjects. Back then, Semantic Web was quite popular. Ragic came out of Semantic Web to map information data in a graph-based model so that it can be

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped a Virtual Company to $10M from Atlanta

Posted on Monday, Apr 8th 2024

If you haven’t already, please study our new Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  We’re big fans of bootstrapping, virtual companies, and domain knowledge. FPD Solutions (formerly Field Pros Direct) Founder CEO Matt Anderson’s story from 2020 has all these ingredients. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born

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Long Bootstrapped Journey into Cutting-Edge Generative AI: Jeff Kuo, Founder of Ragic (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Apr 8th 2024

Businesses are finding unexpected benefits by incorporating Generative AI into their product roadmaps. Ragic has built a $5M ARR no-code platform in the market. A Generative AI front-end is adding unprecedented usability and adoption momentum. Fascinating! Sramana Mitra: Alright, Jeff, let’s go to the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were

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Catching Up On Readings: AI 100 2024

Posted on Sunday, Apr 7th 2024

This annual list from CB Insights is the eighth annual ranking of the 100 most promising private AI companies in the world. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.

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