Accelerate Your E-commerce Business with Fundamental Courses

Are you new to e-commerce or already scaling your business? Do you want to accelerate? This is a collection of courses that can help you save time and resources by teaching you how to avoid common mistakes through case studies.

The courses are built on real-time examples of successful entrepreneurs, so if you study them carefully, you’ll be several steps ahead of the competition.

You can choose from a variety of different courses depending on your skill level, or experience in entrepreneurship. There are lessons for beginners as well as more advanced users who want to take their business to the next level faster.

Depending on what you’re creating, pick between these courses.

• How to Build E-commerce Startups with Sramana Mitra
• How to Build 2-Sided E-commerce Marketplaces with Sramana Mitra

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Best of Bootstrapping: Bootstrapping a SaaS Company in India

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Girish Rowjee is the Co-founder and CEO of Greytip Software, a company that specializes in HR software. Girish is responsible for strategic direction, day-to-day operations, product delivery and international business. His “never say die” attitude and excellent analytical skills have made him indispensable to the organization.

Greytip has pioneered the SaaS model in India. They successfully bootstrapped a SaaS company while keeping their primary focus on Indian corporations. In spite of numerous challenges they have proven that with perseverance and strategic adjustments the SaaS model does indeed have a place in India. While valuable for everyone, this conversation from 2013 is a key case study for Indian entrepreneurs.

Sramana: Girish, what is your background? Where do your entrepreneurial roots come from?

Girish Rowjee: I was born in a small town about 300 kilometers from Bangalore. I did my basic education there before moving to Mysore. My family has generally been an entrepreneurial family. My grandfather ran a bus service between several small towns, which was the first time bus service had been made available [in that area]. He then branched out into several retail shops where he sold electronic goods. Today my father runs operations of the electronics retail business that my grandfather founded in 1937.

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Today’s 601st FREE online 1Mby1M Roundtable for Entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, March 2, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/5 p.m. CET/9:30 p.m. India IST. CLICK HERE to join. PASSWORD: startup  All are welcome!

Rapid Growth and $58 Million in Financing with a Virtual Company: Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: What other industries are you doing well in?

Dominik Angerer: Financial institutions. We can offer a really high SLA. Finance institutions are quite heavy and old, and have processes to be able to use a software. If the software you’re offering has a read-only option, it’s way easier to get in.

In education, Education First manages over half a million sites with Storyblok – half a million content pieces in 54 languages. For one landing page, it took them several weeks and months to create those sites. Now it’s a matter of days. The same applies to other industries.

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Rapid Growth and $58 Million in Financing with a Virtual Company: Storyblok CEO Dominik Angerer (Part 3)

Sramana Mitra: How much did you raise?

Dominik Angerer: $2.5 million. Each of them did $1.25 million. It was super nice because both of them have the same kind of upside. We had two investors who we can benchmark against each other. How many customers can they bring? How helpful are they? Both of them have been amazing so far.

Sramana Mitra: Is this the point where you introduce the enterprise pricing model?

Best of Bootstrapping: Solo Founder Bootstrapped to $7M in India

If you haven’t already, please study our Bootstrapping Course and Investor Introductions page. 

Paras Chopra is Founder and Chairman of Wingify, a company that builds web analytics and optimization technology to include its flagship product Visual Website Optimizer. Here is our conversation from 2013.

Sramana: Paras, let’s start with the very beginning of your story. Where were you born and what are your family circumstances? What leads up to the Wingify story?

Paras Chopra: I was born in Punjab. I have been very lucky to have very forward-looking parents. I was introduced to computers very early on. I got access to a computer in my eighth standard year of school. My father had been playing with computers for a long time. He has an agriculture and biochemistry background, but he needed to use computers to conduct his work. He had a computer back when a 200Mhz computer was best in class!

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