Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to Exit from Saudi Arabia

Autobia Co-Founder CEO Emad Daghreri bootstrapped his first company and took it public in the junior stock exchange in Saudi Arabia. He is now doing a second company. This interview focuses on his bootstrapping to exit story with the first one. Sramana Mitra: Emad, let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are

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1Mby1M Virtual Accelerator AI Investor Forum: With Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc (Part 1)

Sailesh Ramakrishnan, Managing Partner at Rocketship.vc, discusses his AI investment thesis and shares his firm’s use of AI in monitoring investment-worthy startups.

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped to Exit and Bootstrapped Again (and Again)

Retention.com CEO Adam Robinson has bootstrapped his first company to exit, and before the acquisition, incubated his second one within it. He’s repeating the same incubation model by incubating a third company within his second one. Really cool strategy and a great interview. Sramana Mitra: So tell me what’s been going on since we last talked.

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September 12 – 654th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 654th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, September 12, 2024, 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,

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653rd 1Mby1M Entrepreneurship Podcast with Ashish Gupta, Clearvision Ventures

Ashish Gupta, Partner at Clearvision Ventures, has been in the industry for a long time and has an interesting perspective on AI investing.

Bootstrapping to Exit and Bootstrapping Again (and Again): Adam Robinson, CEO of Retention.com and RB2B (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: Very good. So, this one is at $1.5 million already?  Adam Robinson: $1.7 million within nineteen weeks. It was very fast. It was just five people. Sramana Mitra: So that means this year is going to close at probably $5-$6 million, right?

Bootstrapping to Exit and Bootstrapping Again (and Again): Adam Robinson, CEO of Retention.com and RB2B (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: Let’s talk about your LinkedIn strategy a bit more. So you said you have a follower count of 40K, or more? Adam Robinson: It’s over 90K now. It went from 20K to 40K in a week last September. Sramana Mitra: So you have 90K followers, presumably mostly B2B staff people. Adam Robinson: Almost

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Bootstrapping to Exit and Bootstrapping Again (and Again): Adam Robinson, CEO of Retention.com and RB2B (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: So let’s go to the new one. What’s happening with the new one? Adam Robinson: I wanted to scale up Retention.com, but I’d never done it before, so I was very insecure about it. I convinced Santosh Sharan to join us as our COO. He’d helped ZoomInfo grow from $8 million to $100 million

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