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

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 shared yet another fantastic textbook case study when we spoke in 2021. Zimit was acquired by Workday in September 2021. Sramana Mitra: Let’s

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Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 7)

Sramana Mitra: You said at the beginning of the interview that you were trying to make up for the margin gap in services companies with velocity. Did you succeed in doing that? In the ten years that you’ve been in business, did you succeed in growing at a very high velocity?

Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 6)

Sramana Mitra: A lot of enterprise conversational AI applications that you’re talking about are happening more on the customer end – customer service, sales, or customer relationship management. It’s not much on the finance end. So, you rightly point out that this is a more of an open area where you’re starting to see traction.

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April 3 – 679th 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable for Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs are invited to the 679th FREE online 1Mby1M Mentoring Roundtable on Thursday, April 3, 2025, 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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678th 1Mby1M Roundtable Recording

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Roundtable Recap: March 27 – The Realities of Pre-Seed Funding

During this week’s roundtable, we had extensive discussions about the realities of pre-seed funding. If you’re in the market for such investment, please review. Tesser Payments As for the entrepreneur pitches, up first we had Geetha Panchapakesan from Mountain View, California pitch Tesser Payments, a concept-stage FinTech venture. Water Current Power Then we had Michael

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Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Okay. Now I’m going to ask you about the delivery side. So you and your friend Chandra started the business. How did you grow the implementation team?

Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapped an Employee Engagement Platform

I am always thrilled to do stories of pioneering entrepreneurs building technology startups in remote locations. Vantage Circle Co-founder and CTO Anjan Pathak brought us into the nascent scene in Guwahati, in the northeast Indian state of Assam, when we spoke in 2023. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go back to the beginning of your journey. Where

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