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 are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

Anjan Pathak: I was born in a small town in North East India. It’s about 50 kilometers from Guwahati. I spent my childhood there. I studied in a very small school.

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Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: If you quantify what was happening in these accounts, you were landing the accounts with your ERP channel and partnership management expertise and then growing those accounts. So, when you landed those accounts, what were the deal sizes and what kind of deal sizes were you able to expand these accounts to?

Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: In this niche, did you have customer relationships?

Anji Maram: Yes. Especially in the Bay Area, there were several customers who needed this business process to be implemented. Due to my consulting experience and my prior company’s experience, we already had a trusted relationship with the industry.

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Bootstrapping a New Age AI Services Venture: Anji Maram, CEO of CriticalRiver (Part 2)

Anji Maram: It triggered a need in me to do something – create a company and employment. I started thinking the way he thought. However, I was not able to figure out how to do all these things.

Best of Bootstrapping: FinTech Founder Bootstrapped with Services

George Anderson, Founder and CEO of Ninth Wave, offers another case study for our very popular Bootstrapping Using Services series. Here is our conversation from 2021.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start at the beginning of your journey. Where are you from? Where were you born and raised? What kind of background did you have?

George Anderson: I was born in Long Island. I found myself in technology by accident. My first job was through a referral from my family. My father sent me for an interview. I got a job working for an analytical laboratory in New Jersey.

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