Bootstrapping to $100 Million: Edifecs CEO Sunny Singh (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Sunny has built a very interesting healthcare IT company, overcoming serious challenges. Inspiring story of a bootstrapped success. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of background? Sunny Singh:

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Bootstrapping with Angel Money: Josh Levy, CEO of BeenVerified (Part 1)

Building businesses has become cheaper by several orders of magnitude. Josh Levy and his team took just over $2 million in angel financing, and has built a profitable business in New York. For those entrepreneurs facing the Series A crunch, this is an important story to follow. You will do fine if you have patient

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Bootstrapping Using Services: Manish Sood, CEO of Reltio (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page.  Here’s yet another case in point in our Bootstrapping Using Services series. Manish is scaling Reltio super fast at this point, and has raised venture capital, consistent with our theme Bootstrap First, Raise Money Later. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey.

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Bootstrapping Using Services from North Carolina: Ateb CEO Frank Sheppard (Part 1)

Frank and his co-founders have built a sizeable bootstrapped business in North Carolina. Read on to learn what has worked for Ateb and what you can learn from them. Sramana Mitra: Let’s go to the very beginning of your story. Where do you come from? Where were you born, raised, and in what kind of

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Bootstrapping a Billion Dollar Unicorn in Online Real Estate: Auction.com CEO Jeff Frieden (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Jeff Frieden bootstrapped Auction.com to about $180 million in revenue and profitability. Thereafter, he raised private equity financing and growth capital and is currently running a private company that is more than qualified to be a public Unicorn. The company

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Bootstrapping a Highly Profitable Company in Social Media Marketing: Brand Networks CEO Jamie Tedford (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Jamie bootstrapped Brand Networks to a highly profitable, large business leveraging the disruption in brand marketing caused by social media. He then sold minority stake in the company to a private equity firm. Excellent execution for bombbomb alternatives! Sramana Mitra:

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Bootstrapping an Evergreen Business From Oregon: Kirstin Quinlan, CEO of Certified Languages International (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. There is a trend among entrepreneurs wanting to keep running companies without seeking an exit. Certified Languages International (CLI) is one such evergreen company. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your story. Where are you from? Where

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Bootstrapping to $20 Million with Intelligent Financial Engineering: Tim Hentschel, CEO of Hotelplanner.com (Part 1)

If you haven’t already, please study our free Bootstrapping course and the Investor Introductions page. Tim has built an excellent company with quite unorthodox financial engineering decisions that have played out very well for him. Read this story to learn some out-of-the-box thinking. Sramana Mitra: Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and

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Bootstrapping Using Services: eMazzanti CEO Carl Mazzanti (Part 1)

Carl has bootstrapped eMazzanti using services to close to $10M, maintaining a 20% y-o-y growth rate. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the very beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were your born, raised, and in what kind of background? Carl Mazzanti: I was born in Pennsylvania. I come from a military family.

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Bootstrapping from Belgium: iText CEO Bruno Lowagie (Part 1)

Bruno has bootstrapped a highly profitable company from Belgium. Now what? Sramana Mitra: Where are you from? Bruno Lowagie: I’m from Belgium. Sramana Mitra: I’m married to a Belgian. Were you born and raised in Belgium? Bruno Lowagie: Yes, I was born in Ypres, which is in the west of Flanders. I lived there until

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